A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. Shes not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. Theres almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that theres more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the students home village, and an internet role-playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance...