Charles Todd

Good one! Wonderful narrator. We enjoyed this. Great characters and sense of place, the things I really look for in a book. Good mystery, surprising ending to me.

Another good Ian Rutledge story. He’s been given another difficult case to solve by his superior out in the Fens. Two seemingly unrelated murders by a mysterious “monster.” Hamish, the ghost from Ian’s WWI, is along to help him reason out the clues. Ian figures it's a trained ex-soldier, probably an assassin from the war and then has to figure out who he is and why these victims.

Rutledge investigates "cold" and recent murders in rural England.

Not the best of this series so far. I'm taking a break from Inspector Rutledge. I found myself really wanting the book to be done with at about the half way mark. I guess I'm just not that interested in what happens to the Inspector and Hamish, the voice in his head.