Book Log 2017 #41: The Falls by Ian Rankin

A university student from a prominent banking family goes missing, and it's up to Rebus and his colleagues to figure out how her case intersects with the new (an online game she was playing) and the old (a wooden doll in a miniature coffin is found with the body, hearkening back to similar cases in Edinburgh's history). Along the way Rebus gets suspended (of course), and has to maintain an unofficial involvement while Siobahn Clarke risks ending up like the student when she starts playing the online game in order to draw out the person who is running it, known as the Quizmaster.

We're at a point in this series where each book seems to outdo the last. I think what does it for this particular entry is the way in which the new and old elements are portrayed (the depiction of the game and being online in general is better than one might expect, and the historical part is another great use of local flavor in support of the story).