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 RankinTag: hot-beverages-in-crime-fiction
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 RankinWas 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.
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 RankinIt seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.
Ian RankinWar created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
Ian RankinTag: peace war allies division
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
Ian RankinTag: shame corruption concealment
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 RankinTag: nature environment oceans preservation pollution
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 RankinTag: kindlehighlight
The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge,
Ian RankinTag: kindlehighlight
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