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The Falls

An Inspector Rebus Novel, Book 12

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The Falls

By: Ian Rankin
Narrated by: James Macpherson
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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 brings together past, present, and future in a terrifying duel of good - in the persons of DI Rebus and DC Siobhan Clarke - and evil.

Read by James Macpherson.

©2001 John Rebus Ltd (P)2001 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Exciting Scary Student Crime
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Love the series such good story lines characters and narration so cleverly done great listen

Great story great narration

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A great and complex Rebus story. Love that Siobhan really got to shine in this novel too. All read in James MacPherson's smooth voice. Perfect listening.

Perfect listening

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I haven't read a Rebus for sometime, I found this to be a really exciting book, with an intriguing plot with lots of twists and turns along the way. It was good to see a slightly different side to Rebus. The narration was good. Edinburgh is such a great location for these books.

A Good Story

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Very confused about this download as the production swung between two voices. Love James but not the other as the accents were not effective.
I loved the story though and hope it was just an IT glitch.

Mystery story

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One of my favorite Ian Rankin books. Decided to revisit on audio book since the new Rebus is due out soon. A really enjoyable novel and like the way it has links with some of my favorite stories of Edinburgh history the Arthurs Seat coffins & also a bit of Burke & Hare.

Overall a good production although struggled a bit with the way the narrator did Siobhans voice

One of my favorite Rebus novels

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Another great John Rebus story from Ian Rankin . I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline and the narration was excellent .

Excellent

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loved it, love them all cant wait to start the next. I am listening to them making my way from 1 to the end as I have read them previously!

awesome as alwayd

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