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Laura Fraser as Clara and Alec Newman as Jim Buchan in Reichenbach Falls
  REICHENBACH FALLS

DI Buchan is a cop on the edge; Jack Harvey is a successful crime writer with the world at his feet. In Reichenbach Falls the lives of these two former friends are thrown together when a 100-year-old body is discovered beneath the streets of Edinburgh.

Buchan's murder investigation takes him into the dark Jekyll-and-Hyde underworld of Edinburgh and on a parallel journey into the Scottish capital's literary past. What he uncovers leads him to question his relationship with Harvey and threatens to push Buchan over the brink. Based on an original idea by Ian Rankin.

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REVIEWS & FEATURES

Old Pals Play it by the Books: Scotland on Sunday 25/02/07

"Written by [James] Mavor and based on an idea by Rankin, Reichenbach Falls is a multi-layered detective tale that plays with the conventions of the genre before morphing into a mind-bending mystery that weaves fact with fiction and links Edinburgh's past with the city's present."

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A Heart of Darkness: The Scotsman 21/02/07

"The programme's director, John McKay, previously worked on the time-travel-cop series Life on Mars - appropriate grounding, perhaps, for the present drama, in which contemporary crime and Edinburgh's murky past become bizarrely intertwined. "I've always loved walking through Edinburgh and seeing it as a cinematic location," says McKay, who grew up in North Berwick and went to Edinburgh University. "It's so full of alleyways and ups and downs and hidden darknesses. I always wanted to film a chase across the glassed roofs of Waverley Station and up the closes of the High Street and down into the underbelly of the city."

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Cast and Crew
DI Buchan  Alec Newman
Jack Harvey  Alastair Mackenzie
Sinead Burns  Nina Sosanya
Clara  Laura Fraser
Professor Bell  John Sessions
Arthur  Richard Wilson

Writer  James Mavor
Director  John McKay
Producer  Gaynor Holmes

BBC Links

 BBC Drama
Details of the latest radio and TV dramas from the BBC

 Ian Rankin's Edinburgh
Ian Rankin explores Rebus' Edinburgh with Sandi Toksvig

 BBC Writing Scotland
Biographies of Scottish authors and a selection of literary links

External Links

 Ian Rankin
Official website with the latest news from the author

 Ian Rankin Interview
The author talks to Shots Mag

 Crime Time
Reviews, profiles and interviews from the UK crime magazine

 Euro Crime
Active site focussing on British and other European crime fiction

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