The Falls
The Falls book cover

The Falls

Hardcover – January 1, 2001

Price
$9.99
Format
Hardcover
Pages
416
Publisher
Orion Pub Co
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0752821306
Dimensions
6.5 x 1.61 x 9.57 inches
Weight
1.7 pounds

Description

About the Author Ian Rankin was born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960. In 1997 he was awarded the Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black and Blue. His subsequent Rebus novels have all been international bestsellers. He lives with his wife and two sons in Edinburgh.

Features & Highlights

  • A student has gone missing in Edinburgh...She's not just any student, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another rebel, high on daddy's money and more. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a six inch coffin abandoned at a rural beauty spot and an Internet role-playing game run by a mysterious cyber guru.Rebus takes the unpromising historical material and runs with it, leaving DC Siobhan Clarke to take her chances with the virtual Quizmaster. She's young enough to know how to navigate the net, but is she old enough and wise enough to pick up the clues in such a complex case?Rebus takes his eye off the ball, intrigued as to how his clue relates to sixteen similar coffins found on an Edinburgh hillside in 1836. Will he react in time?

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A great Scottish mystery

Amazingly enough I had never heard of Ian Rankin (which astonished me as a lover of British mysteries, when I saw how many books he had written!). Inspector Rebus is the main character, who lives and works in Edinburgh and like many leading investigators not only has marital and relationship problems, but has issues with authority and following rules. OK, so far that doesn't sound too exciting, but the story itself is very gripping and has many twists and turns - you can't blieve who the culprit is! I am now very much hooked on Rankin and have bought 2 of his other books (as a starter!).
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