A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom or worse. 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, ...
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A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom or worse. 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 and a curmudgeonly detective happier with long playing records than digital technology ...In this powerful novel, Rankin, who 'moves dialogue with the precision of a chess-master', (Irish Times) brings together past, present and future in a terrifying duel of good - in the persons of DI Rebus and DC Siobhan Clarke - and evil. Reader beware...once picked up you are not going to be able to put this novel down.
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Good. No dust jacket. About The Book: -A student has gone missing in Edinburgh-completely out of character. She`s not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well to do and influential bankers. There`s almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector 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` Marcel Berlins, The Times--> Genre: Crime Mystery-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Orion / Ted Smart in 2001 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Inspector Rebus Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK The text is in English.
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
2001
Language:
English
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Good. All items inspected and guaranteed. All Orders Dispatched from the UK within one working day. Established business with excellent service record.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.
