Ian Rankin: The Complete Short Stories:A Good Hanging, Beggars Banquet, Atonement by Ian Rankin

Author:Ian Rankin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Detective and mystery stories, Inspector (Fictitious Character), Short Stories (Single Author), Fiction, Edinburgh (Scotland), English, Police, Rebus
ISBN: 9780752869353
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2005-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

It didn’t, but what she said was tabloid news by morning, and Lowland Radio’s licence was withdrawn not long after that. Rebus went back to Radio Three for when he was driving, and no radio at all in his flat. Hamish MacDiarmid, as far as he could ascertain, went back to a croft somewhere, but Penny Cook stuck around, going freelance and doing some journalism as well as the odd radio programme.

It was very late one night when the knock came at Rebus’s door. He opened it to find Penny standing there. She pretended surprise at seeing him.

‘Oh, hello,’ she said. ‘I didn’t know you lived here. Only, I’ve run out of coffee and I was wondering . . .’

Laughing, Rebus led her inside. ‘I can let you have the best part of a jar of Camelot,’ he said. ‘Or alternatively we could get drunk and go to bed . . .’

They got drunk.

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