A Test of Wills: The First Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
By (Author) Charles Todd
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
15th November 2011
United States
General
Fiction
Historical crime and mysteries
FIC
Paperback
320
Width 135mm, Height 203mm, Spine 23mm
244g
Dont miss the first book in the critically acclaimed Inspector Ian Rutledge series
Its 1919, and the War to End All Wars has been won. But there is no peace for Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France shell-shocked and tormented by the ever-present voice of the young Scot he had executed for refusing an order. Escaping into his work to save his sanity, Rutledge investigates the murder of a popular colonel in Warwickshire and his alleged killer, a decorated war hero and close friend of the Prince of Wales.
The case is a political minefield, and its resolution could mean the end of Rutledges career. Win or lose, the cost may be more than the damaged investigator can bear. For the one witness who can break the case open is, like Rutledge, a war-ravaged victim . . . and his grim, shattered fate could well prove to be the haunted investigators own.
"You're going to love Todd." -- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
Charles and Caroline Todd are a mother-and-son writing team who live on the east coast of the United States. Together, they have written nearly thirty mysteries, including the Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford series.