A Fine Summer's Day, (Paperback)

from rlsalvati

Series spoilers, and spoilers for the general setting, but nothing specific about the mystery in this entryI liked the look back at life before the Great War. My discomfort is in Rutledge's relationship with his fiancee, Jean. There are too many warning signs for their future, and he does not see...

from ewhatley

In the days prior to World War I, a young Scotland Yard inspector is called upon to investigate a series of seemingly unrelated deaths. As he digs deeper, he suspects there is some event that serves as a connection between the victims. The book is well written and even though the plot is very sim...

from VictoriaJZ

Not bad, provides background for Rutledge's life before WWI - Jean is insipid and it's hard to believe he'd fall for her. The mystery was interesting and I was concerned he wouldn't get it all figured out before some poor innocent man would be hanged.

from kellyn

Even in his mid-twenties Ian Rutledge knew what he wanted to do with his life: speak for those who, because of murder, could not speak for themselves. This addition to the Rutledge series introduces the young Rutledge on the eve of W W I. Rutledge is caught up in several seemingly unrelated murde...

from FictionZeal

A historical look at our protagonist, it is June 1914, and at that time in his life he was young and very much in love with Jean Gordon. He couldn't understand why his close friend, Melinda Crawford, and his sister, Frances, seemed to distrust Jean so. The war was looming ahead and he knew he'd h...