The Falls (Inspector Rebus Novel Series) - Softcover

When a young student mysteriously disappears, Inspector John Rebus and his associate, Detective Constable Siobhan Clarke, come up with two bizarre clues--a carved wooden doll in a coffin and an Internet role-playing game--and must follow a deadly trail of similar dolls and coffins, from Edinburgh's dark body-snatching past to a fiendishly clever modern-day killer. Reprint.

"A...beautifully written series." -The New York Times Book Review

When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted by the impenetrable riddles of his own troubled past. But the lead is soon complicated by an unexpected twist.

"Rankin is the master of the moody, modern police procedural, working on the same high plateau as Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill, and P.D. James." -The Wall Street Journal

A hand-carved wooden doll in an eight-inch coffin is found on the grounds of the victim's home-a clue that links her vanishing to the deaths of four other women, and to a centuries-old offense that still scars the grisly history of Edinburgh.

"[A] Brilliant Series."-Entertainment Weekly

From the shadowy world of an Internet stalker to the quicksand of lies in the missing girl's dissolute family, Rebus is led into the soul of evil. And to a shattering crime that only he, a man who treads the fine line between investigative brilliance and personal oblivion, could ever hope to understand.

"Finish one of Rankin's book, and you'll feel you've been taken inside the river body of Edinburgh from top to the darkest bottom, a journey that calls Charles Dickens and Wilke Collins to mind as often as it does Inspector Morse." -Los Angeles Times