Chapters (52)

“I’ll see you tonight.”

“Best suit, remember. And don’t take her anywhere cheap…”

Rebus was smiling as he ended the call.

He kept his eyes on his wing mirror as he finished the cigarette. Then he got out of the Saab, lifting something from the backseat. The wind whipped around him as he started tearing methodically at the loose-leaf pages of the Shadow Bible, gusts scooping them up, sending them flying. He had just finished, nothing left but the leather covers, when the Evoque crawled past, settling in the same spot as before. The three men got out, the man-monster holding Peter Meikle upright while Darryl Christie walked towards Rebus.

“He’ll show you,” he said. “Right now, if you like.”

Rebus opened the passenger door of the Saab, threw the remains of the Shadow Bible onto the seat and picked up Peter Meikle’s shoe.

About the Author

Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.

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Books by Ian Rankin

The Inspector Malcolm Fox Series

Saints of the Shadow Bible

The Impossible Dead

The Complaints

The Detective Inspector Rebus Series

Standing in Another Man’s Grave

Exit Music

The Naming of the Dead

Fleshmarket Alley

A Question of Blood

Resurrection Men

The Falls

Set in Darkness

Dead Souls

Death Is Not the End (a novella)

The Hanging Garden

Black & Blue

Let It Bleed

Mortal Causes

The Black Book

Strip Jack

A Good Hanging and Other Stories

Tooth & Nail (previously published as Wolfman)

Hide & Seek

Knots & Crosses

Other Novels

Doors Open

Watchman

Bleeding Hearts

Blood Hunt

Witch Hunt

Dark Entries (graphic novel)

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Copyright

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First ebook edition: January 2014