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Search the Dark (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Search the DarkA mind-damaged veteran comes home from the Great War to be told his wife and two children were killed in the bombing of London. Refusing to believe the news, the man thinks he spots them on the platform of a train station. Then a woman's body is found there, and Inspector Rutledge is sent to locate the children. Martin's Press.
Full description- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Published: 15 May 2000
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: Crime | Historical Crime
- ISBN 13: 9780312971281 ISBN 10: 0312971281
- Sales rank: 53,232
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The introspective hero of wings of Fire and A Test of Wills (Edgar Award nominee) return in a provocative new mystery. Inspector Ian Rutledge, haunted by memories of World War I and the harrowing presence of Hamish, a dead soldier, is "a superb characterization of a man whose wounds have made him a stranger i his own land." ("The New York Times Book Review") A dead woman two missing children bring Inspector Rutledge to the lovely Dorset town of Singeton Magna, where the truth lies buried with the dead. A tormented veteran whose family died in an enemy bombing is the chief suspect. Dubious, Rutledge presses on to find the real killer. And when another body is found in the rich Dorset earth, his quest reaches into the secret lives of villagers and Londoners whose privileged positions and private passions give them every reason to thwart him. Someone is protecting a murderer. And two children are out there, somewhere, the dark...

