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The Falls

The Falls

by IanRankin (Author)

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    Perfect Paperback 2001

    $4.34
Synopsis

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, 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 runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, and an Internet role-playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance ...

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Format: Perfect Paperback
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0752843184
ISBN 13: 9780752843186
Book Overview: Ian Rankin is a world-class author and to date his Rebus novels have over a million copies in print Black & Blue was televised in April 2000 starring John Hannah as Rebus; The Hanging Garden is to be televised in the Autumn. Inspector Rebus titles took eight out of ten places in the Scottish bestsellers top ten including the number one spot in February 1999 The critics on Ian Rankin: 'A master in his field' Scotland on Sunday 'Rankin is without doubt Britain's best crime novelist' Express

Author Bio
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, as well as receiving two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize in 2000. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh. A contributor to BBC2's 'Newsnight Review', he also presented his own TV series, 'Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts', on Channel 4 in 2002. His most recent novel, A QUESTION OF BLOOD, was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in both hardback and paperback. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.