The Falls

The Falls by Ian Rankin When a young woman goes missing
near his native Edinburgh Scotland Rebus finds himself
just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry set in
motion by her powerfully rich father. Struggling to deal
with both his own often-terrifying inner demons as well as
the monstrous bureaucracy of the investigative team Rebus
finds himself drawn again and again into the case
desperately searching for the girls salvation as well as
his own. In time Rebus uncovers two leads: one a carved
wooden doll stuffed tightly into a tiny casket and the
other the missing girls possible involvement in a dark
disturbing Internet-based role-playing game. He enlists
the help of the tech-savvy DC Siobhan Clarke who is young
enough to know her way around the net but who may not be
old and wise enough to avoid potentially deadly pitfalls
and traps. Meanwhile Rebus tracks down stories of similar
caskets and dolls turning up in the area deep into
Edinburghs past some stretching back to a time when
body-snatchers turned into brutal killers. As Rebus and
Clarke delve deeper and deeper into these perilous and
obscure worlds ancient and modern evils begin to converge
and soon Rebus finds hes besieged by an impenetrable mass
of secrets lies and deadly deceit that only he can make
sense of.