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and subsequent Rebus books. Developing another police detective character would allow Rankin to continue to write about Rebus's world after Rebus's retirement, though from a different perspective. Up to this point in the novels, Clarke has been a sidekick for Rebus — not much more than a “plucky girl
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sorted out the roles of Rebus, Cafferty, and Clarke thus: “Rebus has an investment in a patriarchy structured around evil and good, while Clarke … is already an inhabitant of a postpatriarchal world more alert to social, cultural and political complexities.” Although Clarke's “postpatriarchal” world
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Ian Rankin noted in an interview that he had originally planned this novel as the first part of a trilogy following Roddy Grieve through his career in the new
Scottish Parliament; however, he almost immediately decided to kill Roddy off early in the novel and produce only a “one-book trilogy.” The
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Cafferty locked together, disappearing over some Caledonian equivalent of the Reichenbach Falls.”
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called Roddy Grieve is found murdered on the
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