About the Author

Charles Todd is the pen name of the mother and son writing team Charles and Caroline Todd. The authors are best known for their Inspector Ian Rutledge series set in post–World War I England. A Test of Wills, the first in the series, was nominated for an Edgar Award and won Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine’s Barry Gardiner Award. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association named it one of their 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century and it was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Wings of Fire, the second in the series, was short-listed for the first Ellis Peters Mystery Award in the UK. Search in the Dark won the 1999 Reviewers’ Choice Award from Romantic Times Magazine. Their newest series features Bess Crawford and is set in the 1900s. Charles and Caroline Todd live in Delaware and North Carolina respectively.

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Copyright © 2010 by Charles Todd. Originally published by The Mysterious Bookshop.

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ISBN: 978-1-5040-7463-6

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