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A wonderful new series for fans of Agatha Christie, Jacqueline Winspear and Boris Akunin. Richly immersive, this book is a wonder to read, but it is the protagonist who has great appeal: Inspector Ian Rutledge returns from the Great War haunted and troubled by is experience there; while under heavy shell fire, he has had to execute Hamish MacLeod, a young Scot soldier, for refusing to follow orders. Rutledge himself is buried under the rubble of a shell burst that occurs immediately after and thus suffers from a combination of claustrophobia and what we would call PTSD today. He is also haunted by the voice of Hamish - and the Scot rants about his end but also helps Rutledge in his investigation serving as both partner and conscience. An imaginative approach to the story of a murdered colonel in the beautiful English countryside.
HPB Staff Review