Lead Review

  • Book: The Falls
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Author: Ian Rankin

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Edinburgh’s Mummies, a series of tiny coffins on display in the National Museum, provided the inspiration for this novel – references to Burke and Hare and the tiny coffins found on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh in 1836.

Edinburgh is a grand granite backdrop – Shirley McMaster –

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