num_pages: 2
description: When a wealthy banker's daughter goes missing from Edinburgh University, Detective Inspector John Rebus has little to go on in his investigations. Before long, however, Rebus has a hunch that there is more to this missing person's report than meets the eye. His first clue is found in the student's home village; it is a carved wooden doll lain inside a six-inch coffin. When details emerge of the girl's involvement in an internet role-playing game, DC Siobhan Clarke ventures into the lair of the Quizmaster - a place from which she will struggle to escape. How might a link with history prove significant in a case with such technological trappings? And can DC Clarke save her own - as well as Rebus' - professional and personal skin?
language: English
title: The Falls
titlecomplete: The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)
characters: Inspector John Rebus
genres: Crime, Scotland, Novels, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Fiction, Detective, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 14134
places: Edinburgh, Scotland
series: Inspector Rebus
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best British Crime Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: BBC Books