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"Todd's astute character studies . . . offer a fascinating cross section of postwar life. . . . A satisfying puzzle-mystery." — The New York Times Book Review
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career: an unsolved murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow
A woman has been murdered at the
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As the anniversary of the Great War's armistice approaches, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is shaken by two ghosts from his past--a murder case for which he may have helped convict an innocent man, and the war itself, which holds disturbing memories with which Rutledge has not yet dealt.
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 14
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Troubled Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge wrestles with a startling and dangerous case that reaches far into the past when a false confession from a man who is not who he claims to be leads to a brutal murder.
4) The red door
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 12
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English
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In post-World War I England, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge faces a wall of silence as he attempts to bring a ruthless killer to justice for the bludgeoning death of a Lancashire woman and the murder of a man who never came home from the Great War.
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An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 18
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[2016]
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While investigating the suspicious arrest of four young women on the north coast of Cornwall, Ian Rutledge must balance the outrage of the accused with the grief of the victim's family.
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On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo. An Inspector at Scotland Yard, he is planning to propose to the woman whom he deeply loves, despite intimations from friends and family that she may not be the wisest choice. To the north on this warm and gentle day, another man in love - a Scottish Highlander - shows his own dear girl the house he will build for her in September....
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 23
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"A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body other than a military tattoo and an unusual label in his shirt collar; he isn't a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard and Inspector Ian Rutledge...
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 11
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2009
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English
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The superb new entry in the Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery series the "New York Times Book Review" hails as outstanding and the "Washington Post" proclaims as one of the best being written today.
12) A lonely death
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 13
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c2011
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Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge returns in his most exciting and shocking case yet.
14) Search the dark
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2000, c1999
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A mind-damaged veteran comes home from the Great War to be told his wife and two children were killed in the bombing of London. Refusing to believe the news, the man thinks he spots them on the platform of a train station. Then a woman's body is found there, and Inspector Rutledge is sent to locate the children. Martin's Press.
15) Proof of guilt
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When the clues in a hit-and-run investigation lead him to two families famous for producing and selling the world's best Madeira wine, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is pitted against his new supervisor who, dismissing the evidence, has his own suspect.
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 16
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[2014]
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English
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"A man is murdered at a society wedding held at Ely Cathedral, and the local police are mystified. In the end, they send for Scotland Yard, but not before another man is killed. This time, there's a witness, but her description of the killer is so strange that no one believes her. So it's Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge's task to find out who the murderer is and why he has set out on this killing spree, because there is another death, and the...
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 20
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[2018]
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"On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped...
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The local authorities in the English village of Osterley are convinced that outsider Matthew Walsh murdered the local priest. Ian Rutledge, the haunted inspector sent by Scotland Yard to oversee the case, soon learns that there are plenty of suspects in Osterley and that the case may hinge on a dying man's confession and the sinking of the Titanic.
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 4
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"The weathered remains found on a Scottish mountainside may be those of Eleanor Gray, but the imperious Lady Maude Gray, Eleanor's mother, will have to be handled delicately. This is not the only ground that inspector ian Rutledge of Scotland yard must tread carefully, for the case will soon lead him to Scotland, where many of Rutlege's ghosts rest uneasily. But it is an unexpected encounter that will hold the most peril. For in Scotland Rutledge...
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