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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR CHARLES TODD’s
INSPECTOR IAN RUTLEDGE SERIES

SEARCH THE DARK

“I won’t soon forget author Charles Todd’s Ian Rutledge in SEARCH THE DARK.”

—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Entertaining, well plotted and perfect for vacation reading.”

—Lawton (OK) Constitution

“The third compelling Ian Rutledge mystery takes the sensitive and appealing Scotland Yard inspector, a former WWI officer, to the countryside of Dorset … [A] fine period mystery.”

—Publishers Weekly

“A well-crafted historical.”

—Library Journal

“SEARCH THE DARK continues in the fine tradition of its predecessors by serving up a complex, entertaining mystery as well as insight into the aftermath of war.”

—Harriet Klausner, Painted Rock Reviews

“Sensitively written and intelligently plotted, SEARCH THE DARK is a magnificent story of the lost generation and the agonies they suffered. As compelling as a Hemingway novel, this book totally involves the reader in the characters and their fates. The tale is so intense and involving that you will close the book with a feeling of regret and a longing to find out what fate holds in store for Rutledge.”

—Romantic Times (4½ Stars)

WINGS OF FIRE

“[Todd wraps] his challenging plot, complex characters and subtle psychological insights in thick layers of atmosphere.”

—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“Fine writing. A spectacular conclusion that rejuvenates the cliché ‘It was a dark and stormy night.’ ”

—Washington Post Book World

“A strong mystery, filled with fine characterizations, a superb eye for Cornwall and for post World War I attitudes, and a wise and wily explanation of how some of us deal with guilt.”

—Robin Winks, The Boston Globe

“Todd writes exceptionally about a time when people found not just meaning but healing in poetry, when intuition was viewed as kind of ‘second sight,’ and when everyone was stamped by war—not just the legless men, but also the women who lost their loves and so their futures.”

—San Jose Mercury News

“Novelist Charles Todd now joins that growing little circle of American authors like Elizabeth George and Martha Grimes who have made themselves at home in the exclusive field of the British literary mystery.”

—The Buffalo News

“Todd’s writing is graceful and evocative of a bygone time and place.”

—The Miami Herald

“[Rutledge] makes a welcome return in the haunting WINGS OF FIRE … Thoughtful and evocative, Todd’s tale offers interesting, three-dimensional characters.”

—The Orlando Sentinel

“Splendid imagery, in-depth characterization, and glimpses of more than one wounded psyche: an excellent historical mystery.”

—Library Journal