How does Ian Rankin subvert a well-known quotation from Jane Austen?

Is Chief Inspector Lauderdale really oblivious to Rebus’s attempts at irony over the Case of the Lifted Literature, or is it more the case that Lauderdale is winding Rebus up? In any event, who comes out on top?

Consider the way in which Ian Rankin weaves together the serious murder case with the trivial-seeming book-theft case.

What does Rebus’s evening with Brian Holmes and Nell say about his own attitudes to socialising?

Bearing in mind Rebus’s sometimes fraught relationship with brother Michael, does he identify with Gregor’s response to his own embarrassingly behaved sibling? How sympathetic is Rebus to Gregor’s desire to distance himself from his past?

Rebus doesn’t seem to have kept in touch with many of his old friends; is this why he finds the bonds and the motivations that govern this group of tightly knit friends to be simultaneously perplexing and fascinating?

There’s more forensic evidence presented in Strip Jack than in previous Rebus books; how does Ian Rankin approach this?

Ian Rankin’s use of Scottish slang is taken to a new level. Does this cause a problem for readers unacquainted with the idiom?

Is it necessity or merely symbolic that Strip Jack ends with a fire that burns down the fictitious Great London Road Police Station?