by IanRankin (Author)
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI 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..."Rankin continues to be unsurpassed among living British crime writers...He makes the reader feel part of the scene, and enhances the experience with his virtuosity with dialogue...But all these virtues would count for little if Rankin didn't also possess the most important asset of them all - the ability to tell a damned good story." - "The Times".
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: Television tie-in edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 15 Dec 2005
ISBN 10: 0752879375
ISBN 13: 9780752879376
Book Overview: High-profile ITV adaptation starring Ken Stott. Ian Rankin is a regular Sunday Times bestseller and Guardian fastseller. He has an incredibly high profile: he had his own TV series (Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts), received an OBE, guested on Newsnight Review and is a constant contributor to the national press. He has won numerous awards, including the CWA Diamond Dagger and Crime Thriller of the Year (for Fleshmarket Close) at the British Book Awards. Ian Rankin makes up more than 10% of all UK crime sales. He also constantly gets excellent reviews: 'THE FALLS is an inventive and absorbing book ... Once again the city, cast in shadows and light, is centre stage, as complex and brooding as Rebus himself ... Ian Rankin, a crime writer with style, has produced another highly enjoyable and exciting book' The Scotsman. 'First rate crime fiction with a fierce realism' Sunday Telegraph. 'Rankin is streets ahead in the British police procedural writing field ... our top crime writer' Independent on Sunday. 'As sharp as a switchblade. This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order' Express.