Saturday, August 23, 2025

TOOTH & NAIL

 Ian Rankin. TOOTH & NAIL. Orion, 1998. Originally published as WOLFMAN, 1992.


An early Rebus novel, re-titled. I had not read it before, even with the former title. Rebus is a younger inspector seconded to London to help with a serial killer case. The story has more sex and more "action" than later works, I assume because Rebus is younger although already worried about aging and not keeping in shape. Muscling. Car chases. A sub-theme is the early introduction of "psychological profiling" on police work. The tooth motif is used nicely throughout--bite marks on the corpses, dental care, etc. 

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