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Todd, Charles

 
9780553801804: A Fearsome Doubt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
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ISBN 10: 0553801805 ISBN 13: 9780553801804
Editorial: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2002

Sinopsis

Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth about a potential miscarriage of justice. By the author of Watchers of Time.

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Acerca del autor

Charles Todd is the author of Watchers of Time, Legacy of the Dead, A Test of Wills, Wings of Fire, and Search the Dark. He lives on the East Coast, where he is at work on the next novel in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Cold Treachery.

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Bestselling author Charles Todd has earned a special place among mystery s elite writers with his acclaimed series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a former soldier seeking to lay to rest the demons of his past in the aftermath of World War I. But that past bleeds into the present in a complex murder case that calls into question his own honor...and the crimes committed in the name of God, country, and righteous vengeance.

A Fearsome Doubt

In 1912 Ian Rutledge watched as a man was condemned to hang for the murders of elderly women. Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. And when justice was done, Rutledge closed the door on the case. But Shaw was not easily forgotten.

Now, seven years later, that grim trial returns in the form of Ben Shaw s widow Nell, bringing Rutledge evidence she is convinced will prove her husband s innocence. It s a belief fraught with peril, threatening both Rutledge s professional stature and his faith in his judgment. But there is a darker reason for Rutledge s reluctance. Murder brings him back to Kent where, days earlier, he d glimpsed an all-too-familiar face beyond the leaping flames of a bonfire. Soon an unexpected encounter revives the end of his own war, as the country prepares for a somber commemoration on the anniversary of the Armistice. To battle the unsettled past and the haunted present at the same time is an appalling mandate.

And the people around him? among them the attractive widow of a friend, a remarkable woman who survived the Great Indian Mutiny; a bitter, dying barrister; and a man whose name he never knew unwittingly compete with the grieving Nell Shaw. They ll demand more than Rutledge can give, unaware that he is already carrying the burden of shell shock? and the voice of Hamish MacLeod, the soldier he was forced to execute in the war. The killer in Marling is surprisingly adept at escaping detection. And Ben Shaw s past is a tangle of unsettling secrets that may or may not be true. Rutledge must walk a tortuous line between two murderers...one reaching out to ruin him, the other driven to destroy him.

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Editorial
Bantam Dell Pub Group
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0553801805
ISBN 13 
9780553801804
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
295
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