A Long Shadow: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery: 8 (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries, 8) - Softcover

Todd, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061208515 ISBN 13: 9780061208515

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011

Synopsis

New Year's Eve, 1919. Called away from dinner at the home of friends, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds a brass cartridge casing on the steps outside. While it looks identical to the countless others he'd seen during the war, this one has a mysterious engraving. Curious, he pockets it. But soon, he finds another-in a most unexpected place. The inspector knows the shells are for him-markers that point to unfinished business involving the terrible war he cannot leave behind. A survivor with a dark secret, Rutledge walks on the edge of sanity, filled with the abiding fear that someone will discover the guilt, the horror, the shock he carries deep within. And now someone is hunting him. But who? And will Rutledge live long enough to find out why?

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Review:

“Excels at intricate relationships among characters....Another winning story.” (Library Journal)

“Riveting historical mystery.” (Romantic Times)

“Incisive as ever.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“A daunting portrait of a town that keeps its thoughts, its troubles and most of all its secrets to itself.” (New York Times Book Review)

“[A] remarkable series....Keeps readers on the edge right up to the stunning end.” (Detroit Free Press)

“Atmosphere aplenty.” (Charlotte Observer)

“Evocative.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

From the Back Cover:

Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ian Rutledge brought the Great War home with him, and its horrors haunt him still. On New Year’s Eve 1919, he finds a brass cartridge casing, similar to countless others he’d seen on the battlefield, on the steps of a friend’s house. Soon there are more, purposely placed where he is sure to discover them.

Unexpectedly drawn away from London to a small Northamptonshire village, he investigates the strange case of a local constable shot with a bow and arrow in an allegedly spirit-infested wood. Here among the taciturn townsfolk, embroiled in a three-year-old mystery of a vanished young girl, Rutledge hopes to keep his own ghosts at bay.

But his stalker has followed him. And now the emotionally shattered policeman walking the razor’s edge of sanity must somehow keep his balance long enough to discover who is tracking him...and why.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061208515
• ISBN 13: 9780061208515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368