Ian Rutledge #9
William Morrow
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Featuring: Ian Rutledge
384 pages ISBN: 0060786736 EAN: 9780060786731 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Hampton Regis, a small harbor town on the southern coast
of England, is a most unlikely place for violence. Yet, one
spring morning, a man is found on the strand so severely
beaten that he slips in and out of consciousness. The prime
suspect? His wife's jilted lover, who served with Rutledge
in the recently ended Great War—but who left the Front under
a cloud. Badly wounded, yes, but did someone also cover up
cowardice?
Rutledge is called on to prove the
innocence of a man he dislikes and distrusts. But the deadly
triangle also stirs up memories of the woman Rutledge
himself loved and lost when he went to France to fight. His
doubts about the accused and himself only deepen when the
victim of the beating mysteriously disappears, with no body
to be found.
As the brilliant yet tormented
detective discovers that he's not the only person seeing a
reflection of tumultuous emotions in this case, he must
confront the demons that threaten to overwhelm him and
search out the truth. For in Hampton Regis hides a vicious
killer who intends to let nothing—and no one—stand in the way.