โ Scribed by Todd, Charles
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Bestselling author Charles Todd has earned a special place among mystery's elite writers with his acclaimed series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a former soldier seeking to lay to rest the demons of his past in the aftermath of World War I. But that past bleeds into the present in a complex murder case that calls into question his own honor...and the crimes committed in the name of God, country, and righteous vengeance.
_A Fearsome Doubt
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__In 1912 Ian Rutledge watched as a man was condemned to hang for the murders of elderly women. Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. And when justice was done, Rutledge closed the door on the case. But Shaw was not easily forgotten.
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__Now, seven years later, that grim trial returns in the form of Ben Shaw's widow Nell, bringing Rutledge evidence she is convinced will prove her husband's innocence. It's a belief fraught with peril, threatening both Rutledge's professional stature and his faith in his judgment. But there is a darker reason for Rutledge's reluctance. Murder brings him back to Kent where, days earlier, he'd glimpsed an all-too-familiar face beyond the leaping flames of a bonfire. Soon an unexpected encounter revives the end of his own war, as the country prepares for a somber commemoration on the anniversary of the Armistice. To battle the unsettled past and the haunted present at the same time is an appalling mandate.
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__And the people around him? among them the attractive widow of a friend, a remarkable woman who survived the Great Indian Mutiny; a bitter, dying barrister; and a man whose name he never knew-unwittingly compete with the grieving Nell Shaw. They'll demand more than Rutledge can give, unaware that he is already carrying the burden of shell shock? and the voice of Hamish MacLeod, the soldier he was forced to execute in the war. The killer in Marling is surprisingly adept at escaping detection. And Ben Shaw's past is a tangle of unsettling secrets that may or may not be true. Rutledge must walk a tortuous line between two murderers...one reaching out to ruin him, the other driven to destroy him.
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From the Hardcover edition.
__Charles Todd is the author ofWatchers of Time , Legacy of the Dead , A Test of Wills , Wings of Fire , and Search the Dark. He lives on the East Coast, where he is at work on the next novel in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Cold Treachery.
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From the Hardcover edition.
___Praise for the novels of Charles Todd
___Watchers of Time
_"One of the best historical series being written today...in the grand tradition of English murder mysteries."
-*The Washington Post Book World
_____"With his tortured detective Ian Rutledge and the ghost who inhabits his mind-Charles Todd has swiftly become one of the most respected writers in the mystery genre...The pair is unique among sleuths."
-_The Denver Post
_____*Legacy of the Dead
______*A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
_______"Readers will continue to be captivated by Todd's portrait of the dangerously unraveling detective, and his equally incisive evocation of the grieving postwar world."
-_Publishers Weekly
_______*Search the Dark
________"Todd's Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days."
-*The Washington Post Book World
_________*Wings of Fire
__________*A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
___________"Truly captivating."
-_The Drood Review of Mystery
___________"Rich and beautifully nuanced."
-_Library Journal
___________*A Test of Wills
____________*A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
_____________"A first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation...A meticulously wrought puzzle and a harrowing psychological drama."
-_The New York Times Book Review
_____________"More than an ordinary whodunit, this literate thriller raises disturbing issues of war and peace."
-_The San Diego Union-Tribune
From the Hardcover edition.
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### From Publishers Weekly This brilliant and gripping whodunit may well be the best of Todd's six Rutledge novels (Watchers of Time, etc.). Featuring as its protagonist a Scotland Yard inspector who is among the walking wounded after his WWI traumas, the series has always been compelling. This tim