· A Cold Treachery explores the dark, bleak conditions of the north of England, both the physical and emotional human conditions and the harsh environmental conditions. The aftermath of the Great War lurks not far from every village and every family, leaving its scars and aftermath/5(). · `A Cold Treachery' () is Charles Todd's seventh Ian Rutledge mystery novel, but the first for this reviewer. Rutledge is a Scotland Yard detective who is haunted by his service in the bloody trenches of the Great bltadwin.ru: Recorded Books Audio. Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called “harrowing psychological drama” and the Washington Post Book World hailed as "among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days". This time the embattled Inspector has met his match hunting a brutal killer across a frozen hell and the one witness who may .
Charles Todd is a pen name used by the American authors Caroline and Charles Todd, a mother-and-son writing team who write the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries and the Bess Crawford mysteries, as well as stand-alone novels. Their novel Proof of Guilt was a New York Times bestseller, and A Test of Wills was named one of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Associations favorite mysteries of. Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is , and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard detective, Rutledge is called upon to probe a murder in the small Norfolk town of Osterley - but he soon discovers. "A Cold Treachery" is set in England shortly after the First World War. It is important to know this to recognize the transportation of the time and the origin of some of the personal problems. This book is the seventh book in the Ian Rutledge mystery series and the first I have read. Charles Todd was recommended to me, and "A Cold Treachery" was the one available on Libby.
When the victims are tallied the local police are in for another shock: One of the Elcotts’ children, a boy named Josh, is missing. Now the Inspector must race to uncover a murderer and to save a child before he’s silenced by the merciless elements–or the even colder hands of a killer. It is important to know this to recognize the transportation of the time and the origin of some of the personal problems. This book is the seventh book in the Ian Rutledge mystery series and the first I have read. Charles Todd was recommended to me, and “A Cold Treachery” was the one available on Libby. Inspector Rutledge was already in the north of England to testify in a court case when Scotland Yard was notified of the gruesome murders. The mountainous terrain, the cold, and snow permeate Todd's story. People in these parts all know their neighbors and are wary of strangers. A horrible, bloody shooting of an isolated farm family -- mother, father, little daughter, and twin babies -- in their kitchen scares everyone into distrusting everyone else and to start locking doors.
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