Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to...
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.
Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make ‘happy chance finds’. Serendip was the old...
The club coincided.
Muted ‘thanks’ as the person moved away. ‘It
Partner ACC Colin Carswell based at police HQ Sir David Strathern chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police Jean Burchill Rebus’s current partner, museum curator
Rebus remembered that the premature withdrawal of the penis during intercourse for contraceptive reasons was often referred to as ‘getting off at Haymarket.
Rebus nodded his understanding. The Murder Room was quiet when he reached it. Roy Frazer was reading a paper. Finished with this? Rebus asked, picking up another. Frazer nodded. Chicken phal, Rebus ex...
Rebus lifted a Guardian
Poor girl. She would change. The idealism would vanish once she saw how hypocritical the whole game was, and what luxuries lay outside university. When she left, she’d want it all: the executive job i...
Was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it—smirr.
Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.
POETS day, he reminded Siobhan. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday, she recited.
One was very
Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.
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...
John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger,
I’m game if you are.
It was a quiet street—people kept themselves to themselves. It
Infra-red connection,’ he explained. ‘Gets us on-line in a hurry.
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