Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
William Morrow
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
336 pages ISBN: 0061233595 EAN: 9780061233593 Hardcover Add to Wish List
The superb new entry in the historical series the New York
Times Book Review hails as "outstanding" and the Cleveland
Plain Dealer calls "superb"
At the turn of the century, in a war taking place far from
England, two soldiers chance upon an opportunity that will
change their lives forever. To take advantage of it, they
will be required to do the unthinkable, and then to put
the past behind them. But not all memories are so short.
Twenty years later, a successful London busi-nessman is
found savagely and bizarrely murdered in a medieval tithe
barn on his estate in Somerset. Called upon to
investigate, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge soon
discovers that the victim was universally despised. Even
the man's wife—who appears to be his wife in name only—and
the town's police inspector are suspect. But who, among
the many, hated him enough to kill?
Rutledge tenaciously follows a well-concealed trail
reaching back to an act so barbarous and with consequences
so devastating that even the innocent are enveloped by the
murderous tide of events. As he summons all his skills to
break through a wall of silence in time to stem this tide,
others are eager to twist the truth for their own ends.
When justice takes a malevolent turn, can Rutledge's own
career survive?
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