He leads Rebus and Siobhan to BeastWatch, a website giving details of rapists and their release dates. The police had not gone overboard in trying to find the killers, but Colliar was one of Big Ger Cafferty’s men, and the gangleader wants his killer found. Items of clothing were found at the Clootie Well, leading forensics to identify the victims. But true to form he puts work before family when DS Siobhan Clarke phones to tell him of progress in the search for Cyril Colliar’s killer.Ĭolliar had been killed six weeks earlier and his death was the first in a series of killings of convicted rapists who had recently been released from prison. The Naming of the Dead begins with a funeral, that of Michael, Rebus’s brother which fills him with remorse and nostalgia. No-one would blame him for coasting, but that’s not his way.
As the police prepare for the G8 Conference at Gleneagles in July 2005, DI Rebus is apparently surplus to requirements, not much more than a year away from retirement.
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