A Cold Treachery
Inspector Ian Rutledge, Book 7
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Narrated by:
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Samuel Gillies
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Charles Todd
About this listen
Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called “harrowing psychological drama” and the Washington Post Book World hailed as "among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days". This time the embattled Inspector has met his match hunting a brutal killer across a frozen hell and the one witness who may have survived a crime of…a cold treachery.
"You’ll hang for this - see if you don’t! That’s my revenge! And you’ll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down..."
Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, where he’d lost much of his soul - and his sanity - but not in an otherwise peaceful farm kitchen in remote Urskdale. Someone has murdered the Elcott family at their table without the least sign of struggle. Was the killer someone the young family knew and trusted? When the victims are tallied the local police are in for another shock: One of the Elcotts’ children, a boy named Josh, is missing. Now the Inspector must race to uncover a murderer and to save a child before he’s silenced by the merciless elements - or the even colder hands of a killer. Haunted and goaded by the soldier-ghost of his own tortured war past, Rutledge will discover the tragedy of war that splintered one marriage - and pulled together another. Love, jealousy, greed, revenge - or was it some twisted combination of all of them? Any one could lead a man or woman to murder. What had the Elcotts done to ignite their killer’s rage? With time running out, Rutledge knows all too well that such a cold-blooded murderer could be hiding somewhere in the blinding snow.…
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-01-21
A Great Read
This is another great read in the Insp.Rutledge series.It had all the twists and turns and kept me enthralled to the last page. Highly recommended for mystery story readers.
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- Mrs Maureen Cate
- 13-04-18
Superb series...
I adore these books and am slowly working my way through the series. Inspector Ian Rutledge is a complex and intriguing character who earns my respect and admiration.
All the stories I have listened to so far paint a clear picture of 1919 and how WW1 had lingering, sometimes devasting effects on many of the characters we meet in the books. Not least Rutledge himself.
There is just one thing that grates (but I am a pedant!) that has been explained by my recent discovery that the joint authors are American. In 3 of the books I have heard anachronisms. No lady in 1919 would have asked 'do you take cream in your tea?' The English would offer milk. The word 'gotten' would never be heard and hopefully still isn't. Finally, in this book, a lady's handbag would not have been referred to as a 'purse'.
Overall, however, the books I have listened to so far display a wonderful, historical picture of lives and living in 1919 England and Scotland.
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- Rogayah
- 26-03-16
An appalling slaughter
Rutledge is sent by Bowles into the Fells in mid-winter to look into who had murdered a farmer and his family. The bitter weather and the taciturn locals make it difficult for him to get to the truth and to the murderer at the end of this chilling case.
This story was not as interesting as some of the others, but the need to know which of the many suspects was the killer held me to the end. The narrator's slightly soporific voice seemed to emphasize the slow-pace of this story.
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