Ian Rankin - The Falls

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh and there's very little for Detective Inspector John Rebus to go on apart from his gut feeling that there's more to this case than a runaway high on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads a carved wooden doll in a tiny coffin an Internet role-playing game. rebus concentrates on the coffin; eerily reminiscent of sixteen similar relics found on a hillside in 1836; leaving DC Siobham Clarke to deal with the cyberspace quizmaster. She's oung enough to navigate the net; but she may not have the experience to spot the pitfalls in a game where lives depend on split-second timing. With Rebus two hundred years in the past; DC Clarke is going to need more than just luck to save both their skins - professional and personal.