Dead Souls has Rebus come face-to-face with his past while dealing with his daughter in a wheel chair. Here is a book that puts forward more questions than it answers. And who is to say that there is any one answer for these questions. Who becomes a paedophile or a serial killer? If the answer lies in what was done to him in his childhood, then is he at all responsible for his actions? Is it possible for a paedophile or a serial killer to change his ways? Can and should a society accept and support a non-practising paedophile? Difficult questions put together in a well told thriller. Even in these gory crime stories, the beauty and charm of Edinburgh and the surrounding Scottish landscape comes through.