Author: Charles Todd

Proof of Guilt

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 15 Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge must contend with two dangerous enemies in this latest complex mystery in the New York Times bestselling series September 1920 – An unidentified body appears to have been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the investigation to uncover what happened. While […]

The Confession

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 14 August 1920 – Declaring he needs to clear his conscience; a dying man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin five years earlier during the Great War. When Inspector Ian Rutledge presses for details, the man reveals little else, only that he hails from a […]

A Lonely Death

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 13 July 1920 – A breathtaking blend of psychological complexity, haunting atmosphere, compelling twists, and impressive detail, the novels in the Ian Rutledge mystery series have garnered their author widespread acclaim and numerous honors and awards. At the heart of the series is the compelling Scotland Yard detective inspector Ian […]

A Pale Horse

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 10 April 1920 – In the ruins of Yorkshire’s Fountains Abbey lies the body of a man wrapped in a cloak, the face covered by a gas mask. Next to him is a book on alchemy, which belongs to the schoolmaster, a conscientious objector in the Great War. Who is […]

A False Mirror

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 9 March 1920 – An officer who served with Rutledge in the trenches of France before being sent back to England under suspicious circumstances has now been accused of savagely beating the husband of the woman he still loves. The suspect has taken the wife hostage, threatening to kill her […]

A Long Shadow

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 8 January 1920 – Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ian Rutledge brought the Great War home with him, and its horrors haunt him still. On New Year’s Eve 1919, he finds a brass cartridge casing, similar to countless others he’d seen on the battlefield, on the steps of a friend’s house. Soon […]

A Cold Treachery

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 7 December 1919 – Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, where he’d lost much […]

A Fearsome Doubt

Ian Rutledge Series – Book 6 November 1919 – In 1912 Ian Rutledge watched as a man was condemned to hang for the murders of elderly women. Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. And when justice was done, Rutledge closed the door on the case. But Shaw was not easily […]