by Charles Todd
This is the 16th title in the Inspector Rutledge mystery series. I have read about 1/2 dozen of them. These are quite reliable mysteries, they keep you guessing. This one involves the deaths of two men by sniper shots in two different towns. Rutledge can't figure out why they would be killed nor how the two victims could be connected.
Rutledge at first thinks he has his man, but then that person, professing his innocence tags along with him as he investigates further. He ends up identifying two murderers. We learn that the two original victims were blamed for the death of a third victim, a young woman. We also learn of a family secret.
These stories are interesting because of the descriptions of the characters, the English landscape and of life in England following the second world war. Soldier carrying war wounds and war memories figure frequently in the stories. Hamish, the dead soldier who used to torment Rutledge is still around but Rutledge doesn't seem so rattled by him anymore.
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