An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
William Morrow
January 2008
On Sale: January 1, 2008
336 pages ISBN: 0061233560 EAN: 9780061233562 Hardcover Add to Wish List
In the ruins of Yorkshire's Fountains Abbey lies the body of
a man wrapped in a cloak, the face covered by a gas mask.
Next to him is a book on alchemy, which belongs to the
schoolmaster, a conscientious objector in the Great War. Who
is this man, and is the investigation into his death being
manipulated by a thirst for revenge?
Meanwhile, the
British War Office is searching for a missing man of their
own, someone whose war work was so secret that even Rutledge
isn't told his real name or what he did.
The search
takes Rutledge to Berkshire, where cottages once built to
house lepers stand in the shadow of a great white horse cut
into the chalk hillside. The current inhabitants of the
cottages are outcasts, too, hiding from their own pasts. Who
among them is telling the truth about their neighbors and
who is twisting it?
Here is a puzzle requiring all
of Rutledge's daring and skill, for there are layers of lies
and deception, while a ruthless killer is determined to hold
on to freedom at any cost. And the pale horse looming
overhead serves as a reminder that death is never finished
with anyone, least of all the men who fought in the trenches
of France.
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