A Matter of Justice: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery [Paperback]

“Charles Todd hasn’t made a misstep yet in his elegant series featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, andA Matter of Justicekeeps the streak going.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

TheWashington Postcalls the Ian Rutledge novels by Charles Todd, “one of the best historical series being written today.”A Matter of Justice—the eleventh in theNew York TimesNotable, Edgar® Award-nominated, and Barry Award-winning series—brings back the haunted British police inspector and still shell-shocked World War One veteran in a tale of unspeakable murder in a small English village filled to bursting with dark secrets and worthy suspects. ANew York Timesbestseller as spellbinding and evocative as the best of Ruth Rendell, Anne Perry, Martha Grimes, and P.D. James,A Matter of Justicerepresents a new high for this exceptional storyteller.

The superb new entry in the historical series theNew York Times Book Reviewhails as outstanding and the ClevelandPlain Dealercalls superb

At the turn of the century, in a war taking place far from England, two soldiers chance upon an opportunity that will change their lives forever. To take advantage of it, they will be required to do the unthinkable, and then to put the past behind them. But not all memories are so short.

Twenty years later, a successful London busi-nessman is found savagely and bizarrely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset. Called upon to investigate, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge soon discovers that the victim was universally despised. Even the man's wife—who appears to be his wife in name only—and the town's police inspector are suspect. But who, among the many, hated him enough to kill?

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