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...
Muted ‘thanks’ as the person moved away. ‘It
Shi-vawn.
Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called
Boffins
Morning edition. Unless, of course, the
WE COMMIT ALL SORTS OF INJUSTICES AT EVERY STEP WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EVIL INTENTION. EVERY MINUTE WE ARE THE CAUSE OF SOMEONE’S UNHAPPINESS
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...
There was a ring at the door. He did not answer. They would go away, and he would be alone again with his grief, his impotent anger, and his undusted possessions.
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...
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
Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.
Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.
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.
Bad-mouthing everyone else is such a simple option.
Bad Men Do What Good Men
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...
All eyes turned towards him, entered the
Was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it—smirr.
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...
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