Ian Rankin Quotes

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.

The man called Gareth was laughing into his mobile phone as the door opened. There were gold rings on each of his fingers, chains dangling from his neck and wrists. He wasn’t tall but he was wide. Reb...

Scotsman’s way of dealing with death. He’d found

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...

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...

All eyes turned towards him, entered the

Infra-red connection,’ he explained. ‘Gets us on-line in a hurry.

John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger,

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.

So Clarke was in her Vauxhall Astra, on her way to the Royal Infirmary. The hospital sat on the southern edge of the city, plenty of space in the car park at this hour. She showed her ID at the Accide...

Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.

Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty.

Silly buggers,

Now is the first day of the rest of your strife.

When the shit was heading fanwards.

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