“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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
ALSO BY IAN RANKIN
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
