A mind-damaged veteran comes home from the Great War to be told his wife and two children were killed in the bombing of London.
And two children are out there, somewhere, in the dark.....
Someone is protecting a murderer.
And when another body is found in the rich Dorset earth, his quest reaches into the secret lives of villagers and Londoners whose privileged positions and private passions give them every reason to thwart him.
Dubious, Rutledge presses on to find the real killer.
A tormented veteran whose family died in an enemy bombing is the chief suspect. ( The New York Times Book Review ) A dead woman and two missing children bring Inspector Rutledge to the lovely Dorset town of Singleton Magna, where the truth lies buried with the dead.
Inspector Ian Rutledge, haunted by memories of World War I and the harrowing presence of Hamish, a dead soldier, is a superb characterization of a man whose wounds have made him a stranger in his own land.
The introspective hero of Wings of Fire and A Test of Wills (Edgar Award nominee) returns in Search the Dark , a provocative new Mystery by Charles Todd.
Martin\'s Press.
Then a woman\'s body is found there, and Inspector Rutledge is sent to locate the children.
Refusing to believe the news, the man thinks he spots them on the platform of a train station.
A mind-damaged veteran comes home from the Great War to be told his wife and two children were killed in the bombing of London
