Ian Rutledge Series – Book 18
In this absorbing new entry in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is caught up in a twisted web of vengeance and murder.
Early Autumn, 1920 – In Cornwall, four young women take out a rowing boat on a fine autumn afternoon—but before the afternoon is over, a man will be dead, and these four young women will be accused of his murder by the only witness to his death. Because their fathers are prominent men, Scotland Yard is called in to find evidence of guilt—or innocence. But the inspector dies shortly afterward, and Rutledge is sent to take his place. His notes are missing, and Rutledge must follow a cold trail that leads nowhere. Complicating matters is the fact that one of the young women accused of murder is the cousin of the woman Rutledge had hoped to marry in 1914, a world lost to war. It appears he can’t save them, because the only evidence he can find points to guilt. Until he discovers that there are the barest hints of something else in the shadows, a tenuous thread that will take him over half of Cornwall before he can tell where it may lead…and whether it will help or damn the accused.