Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.

Ian Rankin

Stichwörter: hot-beverages-in-crime-fiction



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His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.

Ian Rankin


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Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress.

Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

Ian Rankin


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Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.

Ian Rankin


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It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

Ian Rankin


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War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

Ian Rankin

Stichwörter: peace war allies division



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This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

Ian Rankin

Stichwörter: shame corruption concealment



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You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

Ian Rankin

Stichwörter: nature environment oceans preservation pollution



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This was the winter of 2008/9. Work was ongoing to reinstate a tram system in the city. A lot of people couldn’t see the point of trams and many more disliked the disruption. Streets were closed off. There was almost a sense of ‘apartheid’ as the roadworks made it difficult to move from New Town to Old Town and vice versa. Added to which, the weather was fairly grim. And the banks looked ready to implode.

Ian Rankin

Stichwörter: kindlehighlight



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The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge,

Ian Rankin

Stichwörter: kindlehighlight



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