Rain wasn’t quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.
I doubt he’d give me the smell from his farts—no, tell a lie: in that one respect he’s being more than generous.
No sooner had he finished with a case than another two or three appeared in its place. What was the name of that creature? The Hydra, was it? That was what he was fighting. Every time he cut off a hea...
View, returning from the corner shop. He hadn’t shaved or combed his hair. His shirt wasn’t tucked in. He carried
If it were a peg, you couldn’t hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat.
Down Where the Drunkards Roll. How
Woodwork creaks and out come the freaks, eh?
The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp’s tight confines.
Semper Vigilo – that’s our motto,’ Rebus said,
Rebus remembered that the premature withdrawal of the penis during intercourse for contraceptive reasons was often referred to as ‘getting off at Haymarket.
I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place
The online world could stuff that in its pipe and vape it.
He’s a piece of the jigsaw.’ ‘Maybe so, John, but if he is, he’s a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.
Rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet.
As usual, Vanderhyde’s memory was sharp enough when it suited him. ‘That’s true. All the same, you were there.’ ‘Yes, I was. But I left several hours before the fire started. Not guilty, your honour.’...
Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.
In Scotland. There was no need: the Scots had bigotry instead.
Parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard.
James and his team were readying to brief a lawyer from the Procurator Fiscal's office. The Fiscal Depute's name was Shona MacBryer. MacBryer knew Clarke, and the two shared a nod of greeting as she a...
Ah, but it was not a nice world this, not a nice world at all. It was an Old Testament land that he found himself in, a land of barbarity and retribution.
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