Charles Todd

“Those who value similar portrayals of place as character—as in Louise Penny’s Three Pines, for instance—will treasure A Fatal Lie and its Welsh backdrop.”

“it’s the taint of a shell-shock diagnosis, something considered so offensive and humiliating in postwar society that it can terminate Rutledge’s career almost as quickly as a bullet to the

“a definite study in a ‘practice to deceive . . . ’’’

Charles Todd’s Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard mystery series illustrates the psychological and physical toll paid by soldiers who fought in the trenches of World War I.

“One wishes for the case that will somehow provide a breakthrough to alleviate the suffering that hangs over these stories like a dark shroud.”

“. . . [a] charming series . . .”

The prologue in this fifth book in this charming series takes the reader back to heroine Bess Crawford’s idyllic childhood in India.

“. . . [a] heart-wrenching tale . . .”

“. . . the authors fall down in this book. Nurse Bess Crawford is too saintly a figure.”

“Just one title in a series of Bess Crawford mysteries, A Bitter Truth is a definite keeper.”