"Great police procedural"
For two days Philippa "Flip" Balfour has been missing,
which is so out of character for the student, the police
are already involved. Now it might be that the influence
of her powerful father led to the early investigation by
Edinburgh Inspector John Rebus. He quickly uncovers two potential clues. One is hand
carved wooden doll in a small coffin and the other is
Flip's love of participating in an Internet role playing
game. John tracks the dark history of the small coffins
while Detective Constable Siobhan Clarke joins the Internet
crowd that Flip had belonged to before vanishing. Though
information is collected on both fronts, progress on the
case is slow and the police have not found the link tying
the two clues together, leaving this missing person
investigation look more like another one for the unsolved
files. The latest John Rebus tale contains all the right stuff
that has made this one of the best on-going police
procedural series on the market today. John and the
support cast remain fresh due to little things happening to
them and around them such as a thirty-year retirement of a
peer. The story line combines historical and present
Edinburgh, Internet technology, and the usual clues, puns,
and puzzles so that the audience walks along side Rebus as
he investigates. Ian Rankin will rank among the top of all
the bestseller lists with this entertaining tale. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted October 8, 2001
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