A Pale Horse: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

from MommaTracey

This is the eleventh book in the series and I've read all the previous books. I really wish that the author would spend a little more time on the endings. It would appear that the author really likes cliffhangers. At first, I thought that the next book would explain what had happened at the end b...

from bhowell

This is another great mystery from Charles Todd in the Inspector Rutledge series. Rutledge is an Inspector with Scotland Yard, still haunted by his experience on the battlefield of WWI, and suffering from shell shock. This story takes place in 1920 and leads Rutledge to Yorkshire to investigate a...

from MaggieFlo

Ian Rutledge is a detective with Scotland Yard, following his service as an officer in the British Army during WWI. He is troubled by the voice of his Sergeant Hamish, who it seems, he had to assassinate for refusing an order. A body is discovered in the ruins of an old abbey near Berkshire where...

from jamespurcell

Rutledge is sent off to Yorkshire seeking a person of interest to the British military establishment. A mysterious body, apparently dead from gas, leads to the "Cottages". Built for lepers but now mostly housing people escaping their pasts. More murders ensue as the man from Scotland Yard continu...

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Fascinating to me that this book has received such varied reviews, but the ratings are fairly consistent. The tenth outing in Charles Todd's Ian Rutledge Scotland Yard series. A mysterious body lies in the ruins of Yorkshire's Fountains Abbey wrapped in a theatrical cape, the face covered by a ga...