A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student,though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There'salmost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gutfeeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out onunaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toycoffin, found in the student's home village, and an Internet role-playinggame. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortablecircumstance ...