![]() Most of the Rebus novels that have followed have had considerably more heft. The possibility that a series might develop around this character is there, but the John Rebus that is introduced here is a character whose life-story and lingering pains and hurts all impact on a single case: it seems more the culmination of a career than a beginning.įor all its ambition Knots and Crosses is also a surprisingly thin book. Knots and Crosses is the first John Rebus book.
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