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This is my first dip into the Inspector Ian Rutledge series and what a interesting character the writers have created. The author, Charles Todd, is actually a mother and son writing team. They have made it work. Inspector Ian Rutledge is a damaged man, who barely survived World War 1, he is tragically beyond repair due to shell-shock and guilt. Yet Scotland Yard decides to send him to a small village to uncover a murder. The English village is also shell-shocked from the war, each person is suff
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I've had this book on my TBR list for a long time, and had heard good things about it, but was very disappointed. The detective, Inspector Ian Rutledge, sounded intriguing - a former soldier in the First World War who has returned to duty but is still suffering from PTSD and constantly hears the mocking voice of a dead comrade. When a former colonel is mysteriously killed in a Warwickshire village, Rutledge is called in from Scotland Yard to investigate, but he isn't sure if his detective talent
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How do you put your fingers on the pulse of a dead man and bring him to life? Rutledge had been able to do that at one time, had in the first several cases of his career shown an uncanny knack for seeing the victim from the viewpoint of the murderer and understanding why he or she had had to die. Because the solution to a murder was sometimes just that—finding out why the victim had to die. But here in Warwickshire the Colonel seemed to elude him . . . .
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A mystery in the old tradition of Christie and Conan Doyle. The hero is war-wounder inspector trying to prove himself after a long illness and fighting his own demons as he solves this difficult case.
I will probably read more of this series.
I will probably read more of this series.
Giving at least the first few books of this series a try. Not sold yet, but mainly because it's all so different from the Bess Crawford series. Not a bad thing in and of itself.
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