The Red Door - An Inspector Rutledge Mystery

Zusatztext "The book is more than a whodunit. Todd's characters are well-wrought! his settings evocative! and the book a pleasure to read." Informationen zum Autor Charles Todd is the New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, the Bess Crawford mysteries, and two stand-alone novels. A mother-and-son writing team, Caroline passed away in August 2021 and Charles lives in Florida. Klappentext At the end of a terrible war, a woman painted the door to her house red to welcome her husband home from the Front . . . but he never returned. Two years later, in the English summer of 1920, she lies lifeless behind that door, savagely bludgeoned to death. In London, a man suffering from a mysterious illness goes missing, and his family members offer conflicting accounts of one another's whereabouts at the time of his disappearance. Then, suddenly, he reappears, miraculously recovered, offering no clues to the puzzle or to the reason behind his brothers' and sister's silence and rage. Now Inspector Ian Rutledge, still haunted by the battlefield's horrors, must solve two possibly connected mysteries. He must uncover the family secret that nearly drove one man mad, and bring a ruthless killer to justice. Zusammenfassung “One of the best historical series being written today.” — Washington Post Book World   The accolades keep pouring in for Charles Todd and his New York Times Notable, Edgar® Award-nominated series featuring British police inspector and shell-shocked World War I veteran Ian Rutledge. In The Red Door, a disturbing puzzle surrounding a lie, a disappearance, and a woman’s death ensnares the haunted investigator. Richly atmospheric and unputdownable, The Red Door proves once more that New York Times bestseller Charles Todd belongs in the august company of Ruth Rendell, Anne Perry, Martha Grimes, Ian Ransom, Peter Robinson, P.D. James, and the other contemporary masters of British mystery. ...

Product details

• Authors: Charles Todd
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.12.2010
• EAN: 9780061726170
• ISBN: 978-0-06-172617-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries; Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries; Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteri
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: War & Military, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II