Muttered. Then:
I wouldn't join you if you were coming apart at the seams.
At Tulliallan Police College DI John Rebus based at St. Leonard’s police station in Edinburgh DI James Jazz McCullough based in Dundee DI Francis Gray based in Glasgow DS Stu Sutherland based in Livin...
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...
Boffins
This bleak housing-scheme, designed by sadists who’d never had to live anywhere near it, had a heart which had shrivelled but refused to stop pumping.
Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.
Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.
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...
Infra-red connection,’ he explained. ‘Gets us on-line in a hurry.
Her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn’t going to cure anything. Her
The Weasel Cafferty’s lieutenant Aly the Weasel’s son Ellen Dempsey owner of MG Cabs in Edinburgh DI Bobby Hogan Leith-based detective WPC Antonia Toni Jackson experienced uniformed officer at St. Leo...
But you used to know a good thing when you saw it.Trouble is, that’s never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don’t see anything at all.
Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson’s lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric Brains Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates patho...
Ann Street was reckoned by many to be the most beautiful terrace in the city. Tucked away between Queensferry Road and Stockbridge, its two elegant facing rows of Georgian homes were separated by a na...
Was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it—smirr.
Salmon was sliced thick, and had been sprinkled with lemon juice and pepper. He took a small nip of whisky when the hip-flask came round, then drank two mugs of strong tea. With all the games he felt...
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
You weren't kidding about the rolls, Rebus said, taking another bite.Bacon just the right side of crispy, Robert Chatham agreed. They were seated across from one another at a booth with padded seats a...
We’ve piled his plate high with shit, Fox conceded. And not even tied a bib around his neck, Kaye added. Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?