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David Dufty
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong.
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Charles Todd
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New…
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Denis Cryle
Telegraph Todd became a legend in his own lifetime for introducing Australian colonists to a new information age. But only recently has the full extent of his many and varied…
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Don Bruns
Inspired by songs from AC/DC's bestselling album, Back in Black, this anthology contains ten murder mysteries from ten bestselling writers--including a new Jack Reacher original by Andrew Child.
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A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help…
World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in A Duty to the Dead, returnsin an exciting new mystery in which a murder leads her into the clutches of awily killer.
Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. In 1908, Colonel Crawford’s regiment discovered it…
In post-World War I England, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge faces a wall of silence as he attempts to bring a ruthless killer to justice for the bludgeoning death of…
From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes an absorbing mystery featuring battlefield nurse Bess Crawford, who finds her future in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her…
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World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford s career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York…
P.S. insights, interviews, & more… –Cover.
The carnage of World War I comes back to haunt Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge when he discovers that the woman who has become the prime suspect in the callous…
Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard arrives in the Norfolk port of Osterley to investigate the murder of the local Catholic priest, who had attended the deathbed of Herbert Baker…
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…
The Edgar Award-nominated and bestselling author of A Fearsome Doubt delivers this mesmerizing, stand-alone novel, set in England during World War I. Many twists and turns, angst-ridden characters, and an…
A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric…
Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is a witness to murder in the twentieth installement of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series
Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost –
After two London men end their business partnership, one of them is savagely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset. Investigating the killing, Scotland Yard Inspector…
You re going to love Todd. Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyThe critically acclaimed creator of the Inspector Ian Rutledge and battlefield nurse Bess Crawford mystery series, Charles Todd now offers readers…
Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling…
[Readers] are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford … While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a compassionate nurse who…
Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters. -The Sun-Sentinel
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark…
When successful London businessman is found savagely and bizarrely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is called upon to investigate…
Inspector Rutledge left a brilliant career in Scotland Yard to fight in the Great War. It is now 1919, shell shocked and trying to salvage his sanity and fight off…
Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. An astonishing tip from…
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer in this 11th book in the beloved series from…
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If there’s ever been a more complex and compelling hero in crime fiction than Inspector Rutledge, I can’t think of one. -Jeffery Deaver
In one of his most puzzling cases…
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer… –
New Year’s Eve, 1919. Called away from dinner at the home of friends, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds a brass cartridge casing on the steps outside. While it looks…
Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the Devil. Instead, they stumble over the Devil…
The latest Ian Rutledge mystery proves to be a superb addition to the brooding detective series set in post-World War I London.
Three men have been murdered in a Sussex village, and Scotland Yard detective inspector Ian Rutledge has been called in. It’s a baffling case. Shortly after Inspector Ian Rutledge arrives…
A Duty to the Dead, the first book of an exciting new series, is set in England during World War I, and features a spectacular female protagonist.
Claiming he needs to clear his conscience, a dying man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin years ago during the war. When Inspector Ian Rutledge…
An unidentified body appears to have been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the investigation to uncover what happened. While signs point to murder, vital questions…
Overwhelmed by the constant flow of wounded soldiers coming from the French front, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford must now contend with hundreds of influenza patients as well. But war and…
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