False Mirror

<p>Full of suspense surprises and sympathetic characters.<br />--<em>Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel</em></p><p>No mystery series I can think of captures the sadness and loss that swept over England after World War I with the heartbreaking force of Charles Todd's books about Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge.<br />--<em>Chicago Tribune</em></p><p>The remarkable Charles Todd has created one of the most unforgettable characters in mystery and crime fiction: Inspector Ian Rutledge shell-shocked veteran of the Great War. <em>A False Mirror</em> is one of Todd's most powerful novels plunging his tormented protagonist into the center of a brutal crime that painfully echoes events in Rutledge's own past. Poignant evocative and continually surprising <em>A False Mirror</em> is further proof that Charles Todd is well deserving of the critical acclaim the Rutledge novels have earned; a <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author who belongs among the acknowledged masters of the genre including P. D. James Elizabeth George Ruth Rendell and Jacqueline Winspear.<br /></p>