Watchers of Time

Zusatztext “If anyone can turn a simple village mystery into a brooding Greek tragedy! it’s Charles Todd. . . . Todd handles grave issues with great compassion” — The New York Times Book Review   “One of the best historical series being written today . . . In the grand tradition of English murder mysteries.” — The Washington Post Book World “With his tortured detective Ian Rutledge and the ghost who inhabits his mind . . . Charles Todd has swiftly become one of the most respected writers in the mystery genre. . . . The pair is unique among sleuths.” — The Denver Post  “Outstanding. Todd’s portrait of Rutledge and postwar England remains powerful.” —Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine  Informationen zum Autor Charles Todd is the author of Legacy of the Dead , A Test of Wills , Wings of Fire , and Search the Dark . He lives on the East Coast, where he is at work on the next novel in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Fearsome Doubt . Klappentext "If anyone can turn a simple village mystery into a brooding Greek tragedy, it's Charles Todd. . . . Todd handles grave issues with great compassion"-The New York Times Book Review In a marshy Norfolk backwater, a priest is brutally murdered after giving a dying man last rites. For Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge, an ex-officer still recovering from the trauma of war, it looks to be a simple case. Yet the Inspector finds himself uncovering secrets that the local authorities would prefer not to see explored. Rutledge pares away layers of deception to piece together a chain of events that stretches from the brooding marshes to one of the greatest sea disasters in history-the sinking of the Titanic. Who is the mysterious woman who may have boarded that ship-and who is the secretive woman who survived it? Only Rutledge can answer those questions . . . and prevent a killer who'll stop at nothing from striking again. Praise for Watchers of Time "One of the best historical series being written today . . . In the grand tradition of English murder mysteries."-The Washington Post Book World "With his tortured detective Ian Rutledge and the ghost who inhabits his mind . . . Charles Todd has swiftly become one of the most respected writers in the mystery genre. . . . The pair is unique among sleuths."-The Denver Post "Outstanding. Todd's portrait of Rutledge and postwar England remains powerful."-Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine CHAPTER 1 SEPTEMBER 1919 Osterley Dr. Stephenson turned away from the bed where the dying man lay breathing so lightly the blanket over his thin chest barely stirred. His bony, restless fingers plucking at the edge of the wool were the only signs of life and awareness. Twice the young woman sitting on the bed beside him had tried to still them, covering them with her own, but her father’s hand picked up the silent tattoo again, like a drummer remembering his place, as soon as she released it. He had already frayed an inch of the binding. She gave up and sat back, sighing. His face was grooved by illness, and a stubble of beard emphasized the lines, like a rough landscape of suffering below the sun-weathered skin of forehead and nose. Shaggy gray eyebrows hung heavily over the sunken lids. Age weighed him down, but there was a certain strength there as well, as if life had made him fight for all he had, and he had not forgotten the battles. Catching the eyes of the man’s sons, who were standing on the far side of the bed, faces in shadows cast by the scarf draped over the lamp’s shade, the doctor nodded toward the window across the room, out of earshot of the patient. The young woman looked up as they moved away, but stayed where she was. She didn’t want to hear what was being whispered. Another gust of wind swept the front of the house, and rain was...

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If anyone can turn a simple village mystery into a brooding Greek tragedy, it s Charles Todd. . . . Todd handles grave issues with great compassion The New York Times Book Review 

One of the best historical series being written today . . . In the grand tradition of English murder mysteries. The Washington Post Book World

With his tortured detective Ian Rutledge and the ghost who inhabits his mind . . . Charles Todd has swiftly become one of the most respected writers in the mystery genre. . . . The pair is unique among sleuths. The Denver Post 

Outstanding. Todd s portrait of Rutledge and postwar England remains powerful. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: TODD, Charles Todd
• Editore: Bantam Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.07.2002
• EAN: 9780553583168
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58316-8
• Pagine: 421
• Dimensioni: 107 mm x 176 mm x 27 mm
• Serie: Inspektor Rutledge; Inspector Ian Rutledge; Inspector Ian Rutledge; Inspektor Rutledge
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio