Author: Rankin, Ian
Crime & mystery 
Published 07/08/2008 by Orion Publishing Co (Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Lt) in the United Kingdom as part of the A Rebus Novel series 
Paperback | 304 pages
The third Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'No one writes better crime novels' EVENING STANDARDThey call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac.
When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.