Search the Dark

Search the Dark (1999) Charles Todd

This is the third Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery.

A man goes made on a train, believe he’s seen his wife and children, who were killed when their house collapsed and burned during the war. When a woman’s body appears–badly beaten and disfigured–suspicion falls upon the man. But no one knows what has become of the man–and especially–the two children on the train platform.

A very convoluted mystery, and no happy endings to be found.

It’s terribly sad, the way men’s minds minds broke, during the Great War, and the war that followed.

Severely claustrophobic, from a living grave, severely shell-shocked bruised and disoriented, he was allowed a few hours’ rest and was then sent back to the front.

This series is much darker than his Bess Crawford series. It’s hard to read too many of these books, without becoming overwhelmed.
Rating: 7/10

Published by St Martin Minotaur

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