Ian Rankin - Resurrection Men

“What do you plan to do about that, DS Clarke?”

“I don’t know . . . maybe I could take it to bed with me and feed it Cadbury’s Whole Nut. That’s always worked for me in the past.”

When Thomson looked up from her cheap blue pen, she saw that Siobhan was grinning.

“I think that’s probably enough for today,” the counselor said.

“Probably,” Siobhan said, getting to her feet. “And thank you . . . I feel heaps better.”

“And I feel like a large bar of chocolate,” Andrea Thomson said.

“The canteen should still be open.”

Thomson put her unblemished legal pad into her bag. “Then what are we waiting for?” she asked.

Ian Rankin is the author of more than eighteen books. He is an Edgar Award nominee and the recipient of both a Gold Dagger Award for Fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.

Knots & Crosses

Hide & Seek

Tooth & Nail

A Good Hanging and Other Stories

Strip Jack

The Black Book

Mortal Causes

Let It Bleed

Black & Blue

The Hanging Garden

Death Is Not the End (a novella)

Dead Souls

Set in Darkness

The Falls