Charles Todd is the author of 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, Watchers of Time.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Todd's Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and
affecting being written these days."
-- 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
"A rich, complex novel intelligently written and very
affecting."
-- The Purloined Letter
"Eloquent ... rich."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Tightly worked, poignant ... a most moving story."
-- Booknews from The Poisoned Pen
Also by Charles Todd:
A Test of Wills (available from Bantam Books)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Wings of Fire
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Search the Dark
and coming soon in hardcover:
Watchers of Time
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Todd's Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and
affecting being written these days."
-- 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
"A rich, complex novel intelligently written and very
affecting."
-- The Purloined Letter
"Eloquent ... rich."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Tightly worked, poignant ... a most moving story."
-- Booknews from The Poisoned Pen
Also by Charles Todd:
A Test of Wills (available from Bantam Books)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Wings of Fire
A New York Times Notable Book of the
Year
Search the Dark
and coming soon in hardcover:
Watchers of Time
The muddy, bloody horrors of WWI continue to haunt Insp. Ian Rutledge, back at work at Scotland Yard, but just barely. Still guilt-stricken over his wartime murder of Corp. Hamish MacLeod, who "cracked" during the Somme offensive of 1916, Rutledge hears Hamish's voice in his head as a steady, moralizing conversationalist. Now Rutledge has been dispatched to Scotland to identify the probable remains of Eleanor Gray, an aristocratic suffragette inexplicably estranged from her mother, the imperious Lady Maude. Local police theorize that Eleanor was murdered on the Highlands by beautiful, young Fiona MacDonald, who's been raising Eleanor's newborn son as her own. Unconvinced of a link between the two women, Rutledge visits Fiona in jail and immediately recognizes her as Hamish's beloved fianc‚e. But Fiona won't exonerate herself, refusing to identify the boy's real parents. Following the Edgar-nominated A Test of Wills (1996), this fourth installment in the series focuses narrowly on the question: is there a link between Fiona and Eleanor? Since the answer is never in doubt, there's not much to absorb suspense addicts, as Rutledge slogs through Scotland trying to break the apparently deadlocked circumstantial case. The resolution, implicating too many peripheral characters, is particularly unsatisfying. But readers will continue to be captivated by Todd's portrait of the dangerously unraveling detective, and his equally incisive evocation of the grieving postwar world. Agent, Jane Chelius. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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