This is the 20th novel (or 21st?) in a historical fiction mystery series set in nineteen-twenties Britain.
The protagonist is Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, who proposes on the same very lovely summer day that the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire is assassinated, an event which sets World War I in motion.
For fans of this series, this story is a kind of "origin story" and allows us to see the Inspector before he served in WWI.
I've never read anything by Charles Todd before. Charles Todd is a mother-son writing team who live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
I found that the novel immediately drew me in, and I hardly noticed the first 200 pages flying by. I did something I used to do all the time but rarely do any more: I read the last chapter to see how it ended. I'm sorry now that I did that. The last 100 pages seemed to me to drag, and I suppose knowing how it ended robbed those last 100 pages of any suspense.
The authors supplied plenty of information about the events that began the first World War, and I found that interesting because I'd forgotten what I learned in school.
The protagonist is Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, who proposes on the same very lovely summer day that the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire is assassinated, an event which sets World War I in motion.For fans of this series, this story is a kind of "origin story" and allows us to see the Inspector before he served in WWI.
I've never read anything by Charles Todd before. Charles Todd is a mother-son writing team who live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
I found that the novel immediately drew me in, and I hardly noticed the first 200 pages flying by. I did something I used to do all the time but rarely do any more: I read the last chapter to see how it ended. I'm sorry now that I did that. The last 100 pages seemed to me to drag, and I suppose knowing how it ended robbed those last 100 pages of any suspense.
The authors supplied plenty of information about the events that began the first World War, and I found that interesting because I'd forgotten what I learned in school.
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