A Long Shadow
By Charles Todd
(Harper, Mass Market Paperback, 9780060786724, 368pp.)
Publication Date: January 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Historical, Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
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It's New Year's Eve, 1919. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge has accompanied his sister to the home of mutual friends for dinner but gets a call from the office and has to leave. On the steps outside, he sees a brass cartridge casing, like countless others he's seen during the war. But this one has an engraving in the metal. Curious, he pockets it.
Soon after, Rutledge is on the southern coast of England helping the local police capture a murderer. Work done, on a whim he drives along the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic and takes a walk out on the headland. Returning to his car, he finds another engraved cartridge casing on the driver's seat. He's been followed.
The cartridge casing seems to point to the war and unfinished business there. To stay alive in the face of an unknown and unseen adversary, Rutledge is pressed to the limits of his skills. He's the prey. But who is the hunter?
Charles Todd is the New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, the Bess Crawford mysteries, and one stand-alone novel. A mother-and-son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina.
“Riveting historical mystery.”
-Romantic Times
“A daunting portrait of a town that keeps its thoughts, its troubles and most of all its secrets to itself.”
-New York Times Book Review
“Evocative.”
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
“[A] remarkable series....Keeps readers on the edge right up to the stunning end.”
-Detroit Free Press
“Atmosphere aplenty.”
-Charlotte Observer
“Incisive as ever.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Excels at intricate relationships among characters....Another winning story.”
-Library Journal
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