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  • The Falls

  • An Inspector Rebus Novel, Book 12
  • By: Ian Rankin
  • Narrated by: James Macpherson
  • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (682 ratings)
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The Falls

By: Ian Rankin
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Summary

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

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A good book poorly read

I do like to hear the Rebus Books read by Tom Cotcher. However Samuel Gillies does Ian Rankin an injustice by reading this book. He sounds like he could well be reading a telephone directory. I found that it was a dissapointment to hear what could be a good story being so poorly read and I gave up listening to it after a few hours.

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One of the best

I've read all Rebus books but it's great listening to them. This is one of the best with excellent narration

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The usual Rebus

This took a long time for anything to happen really but it did get going about half way through. Not the best Rebus book but ok. Ideally the series should be read in order to appreciate all the characters and their progression through life.

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Great Rebus story, let down by the reader

It took a while for me to get into this audiobook, mainly because the reader's accents aren't Edinburgh accents, and some of the characterisation is a bit flat. I found ‘The impossible dead’ read by Peter Forbes & ‘Beggars banquet’ read by James Macpherson far more enjoyable to listen to due to the strong characterisation by the readers, and their more authentic accents. However stick with it, and the story really builds, drawing you in. There is an intriguing plot, which has you guessing right to the end, and some fascinating insights into the main characters (Rebus and Clarke) and the other regular characters in the Rebus stories.

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Mediocre

I enjoy the rebus books but give this one a miss. Dull. Not sure why I listened to the end. Don’t bother getting this one. There are far bettter rebus novels to listen to

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Rebus at his best

brilliant, great story, loved it,
my favourite Rebus story from the collection. brings Edinburgh to life

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Somehow I’d Missed This - great treat of a listen.

Not sure how this was missed by my Ian Rankin Rebus Radar. But finding I hadn’t read or heard this before was rather like finding a big sum of money down the back of the sofa!
I listened to it straight through over two days.
James McPherson is as always an excellent narrator and I never notice it is a male reading female characters when he is behind the microphone.
I can’t enjoy Rebus without James McPherson he is synonymous with the character for me - just like Martin Jarvis is William and Kobna Holdbrook Smith is Peter Grant and Anton Lesser is Marcus Didius Falco.
I wish there were more I hadn’t read/heard already.

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Great listening!

Usual high standard of Ian rankin. Engagingly narrated. I could feel John rebus speaking to me.

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Another Great Audiobook Ian Rankin At His Best

Once again Ian Rankin delivers another great episode in the Rebus series. It’s got all the things we come to expect from him. Twists, turns and some great characters.

It’s nice that in this story the focus isn’t just on Rebus. Ian Rankin begins to allow other characters to take centre stage.

Once again we get brilliant narration by James MacPherson. So once again I can’t fault this audiobook, and I’m looking forward to the next.

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Excellent

Excellent storytelling at its finest, engrossing and engaging book. Listening to the rebus novels in order and this one is certainly better than the last, onto the next.

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