The Falls - Ian Rankin Reviews

The book starts by throwing you straight into the action two days after a banker's daughter, Philippa, has gone missing. Rebus and his colleague Siobhan begin their chase using an involving computer game which she was involved in. To help get to the bottom of this, Siobhan plays the game and the affect the Quizmaster has upon the disappearance ...

I've just had an Amazon splurge and treatedmyself to several of Ian Rankin's novels about his Edinburgh detective, Inspector John Rebus. I finished "The Falls" in the early hours of this morning. I think it's the best Rebus novel I've read so far – and that's saying something! Philippa 'Flip' Balfour is twenty ...

Eight days in Devon, my favourite English seaside County. Beautiful weather, dry and sunny all week, lovely company and a wonderful place to stay. Sounds perfect doesn’t it? Well it would have been if I hadn’t have got food poisoning after two days – the very thought of a clotted cream tea still makes me feel nauseous. ...

‘The Falls’ is the latest in Ian Rankin’s series of crime thrillers featuring Detective John Rebus, and for me it’s one of the best. For those who don’t know, Rebus is an Edinburgh detective who drinks too much, broods too much, has too many regrets, too much stubbornness, too bad a temper and a streak of ...

As you may imagine my little friend Geoffrey the mad mohican giraffe "Oi stop calling me mad, you twit King!" Ok, my little friend Geoffrey the giraffe, with the natty mohican haircut, likes dark things, not dark as in no light, because quite frankly he is scared of the dark and sleeps with the light on, the other kind of dark, the one ...

A wealthy bank owner?s daughter goes missing in ?Auld Reekie? and Rebus, a serious drinker and go-it-alone detective of the Lothian and Borders Constabulary is at the forefront of a team which is set the task of tracing this ?MISPER? - as missing persons are apparently known in ?the job?. (the police force) Right from the start Rebus ...

"His twelfth Rebus mystery, The Falls, will be out in hardback in April/May, but I don't think I'll be diving into that for now. I might wait for the paperback, or for some trusted advice." -chris105 (op on "Set in Darkness" by Ian Rankin) And sure enough, as punctual as Christmas, here I am breaking my ...