A student has gone missing in Edinburgh and there‘s very little for Detective Inspector John Rebus to go on apart from his gut feeling that there‘s more to this case tharn a runaway high on unaccustomed freedom.Two leads emerga: a carved wooden doll in a tiny coffin and an Internet role-playing game. Rebus concentrates on the coffin, eerily reminiscent of sixteen similar relics found on a hillside in 1836, leaving DC Siobhan Clarke to deal with the cyberspace Quizmaster. She‘s young enough to spot the pitfalls in a game where lives depend on split-second timinf. With Rebus buried two hundred years in the past, DC Clarke is going to need more that just luck to save both their skins - professional and personal...