Seamless in its storytelling and enthralling in its plotting.
-- Ft.
Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Dark and remarkable.
Once Todd] grabs you, there's no putting the novel down.
-- Detroit Free Press The Winston-Salem Journal declares that, like P.
James and Ruth Rendell, Charles Todd writes novels that transcend genre.
A Long Shadow proves that statement true beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Once again featuring Todd's extraordinary protagonist, Scotland Yard investigator and shell-shocked World War One veteran, Inspector Ian Rutledge, A Long Shadow immerses readers in the sights and sounds of post-war Great Britain, as the damaged policeman pursues answers to a constable's slaying and the three-year-old mystery of a young girl's disappearance in a tiny Northamptonshire village.
Read Todd's A Long Shadow and see why the Washington Post calls the Rutledge crime novels, one of the best historical series being written today.