Semper Vigilo – that’s our motto,’ Rebus said,
Scotsman’s way of dealing with death. He’d found
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 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
The Scottish vernacular is rich in colourful euphemisms for inebriation: ‘stocious’, ‘stotting’, ‘guttered’, ‘steaming’, ‘steamboats’, ‘wellied’ and ‘hoolit’ are just a few. Another is ‘mortal’, as in...
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...
Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.
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.
Now is the first day of the rest of your strife.
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
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