Her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn’t going to cure anything. Her
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.
There’s an insult buried in there somewhere, but I can’t quite see it.
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...
Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called
Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.
John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger,
I went to the Oxford Bar first off, but they said they hardly see you these days. I’m at the age where nothing should surprise me, but
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
Morning edition. Unless, of course, the
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?
We’re ready for the off, then.
They parked in a pay-bay on George Square and walked through the gardens, emerging in front of the university library. Most of the buildings here had gone up in the 1960s, and Rebus hated them: blocks...
St. Leonard’s Police Station DS Siobhan Clarke (pronounced Shiv-awn) DI Derek Linford no friend to Rebus, disliked by Siobhan DCS Gill Templer officer in charge of St. Leonard’s DC David Hynds a new r...
Scotland is divided into several police regions. Rebus works for Lothian and Borders Police, whose beat covers Edinburgh and most points south until you reach the English border. The region’s HQ is ba...
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...
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...
Bad Men Do What Good Men
Despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.