{"id":3478,"date":"2013-01-13T19:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:20:44","slug":"search-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3478","title":{"rendered":"Search the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search the Dark<\/a><\/em> (1999) Charles Todd<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the third Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A very convoluted mystery, and no happy endings to be found.<\/p>\n

It’s terribly sad, the way men’s minds minds broke, during the Great War, and the war that followed.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This series is much darker than his Bess Crawford series. It’s hard to read too many of these books, without becoming overwhelmed.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by St Martin Minotaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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After reading and thoroughly enjoying the Bess Crawford mystery, I remembered I had several books in Charles Todd's Ian Rutledge series, and decided to reread them. Inspector Rutledge of Scotland Yard served in the Great War, and he's suffering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Test-Wills.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":905,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/905","url_meta":{"origin":3478,"position":4},"title":"Wings of Fire","author":"Michelle","date":"January 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Wings of Fire (1998) Charles Todd Wow. Just like the first book, A Test of Wills, the second book, Wings of Fire was also quite depressing. Which leads to me to wonder: why am I surprised that a murder mystery is depressing? After all, the very premise of a murder\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Wings-Fire.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3439,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3439","url_meta":{"origin":3478,"position":5},"title":"Wings of Fire","author":"Michelle","date":"January 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Wings of Fire (1998) Charles Todd The second Ian Rutledge mystery finds Rutledge sent to Cornwall, to look into the deaths of a prominent family: a double suicide and a fall. Adding to the confusion, one of the suicides turned out to be a famous poet, O.A. 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