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Bezig met laden... Legacy of the Dead (Inspector Ian Rutledge) (editie 2001)door Charles Todd (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. (2000) Another good one as Rutledge tries to solve the apparent murder of a woman who leaves behind a child. Or did she? Or is it the woman they think it is? Is it even a woman? Again, I like the way that Todd uses PTSD for all of the WWI vets who are involved in this case. We also learn a lot more of the reason Hamish haunts Rutledge. Rutledge was Hamish's superior who had to order his execution during the war for desertion. KIRKUS:Apt to keep to herself at the best of times and isolated all the more cruelly from the Scottish village of Duncarrick by the death of the aunt she went to live with, Fiona MacDonald is easy prey for a series of poisonous letters charging that the son she's claimed was left fatherless by WWI never had a proper father to begin with. And when an equally anonymous counter-letter defends Fiona against the charge of harlotry by asserting that she'd taken the boy from his real mother after her death, the constabulary investigatesĄand finds enough evidence to jail Fiona for murder. Her refusal to mount a convincing defense only sets the town more harshly against her, and her situation seems desperate until the arrival of troubled war veteran Inspector Ian Rutledge (Search the Dark, 1999, etc.), ordered this time to investigate the disappearance of imperious Lady Maude Gray's suffragist daughter Eleanor, who just might be the real mother of the child Fiona's been raising. Rutledge, literally haunted by the familiar spirit of Hamish MacLeod, the corporal he'd unwillingly executed for cowardice on the French front, is horrified to discover that Fiona was MacLeod's fianc?eĂ‚ÂĄand that's only the first of many unpleasant discoveries he'll make in this richly tangled mystery, which continues to borrow its storytelling conventions from the 1919 period of its setting.More Q&A than a season with Regis Philbin, but the creeping drive toward Todd's powerful climactic revelations will make it all worthwhile for readers who go the distance.Pub Date: Oct. 10, 2000ISBN: 0-553-80168-6Page Count: 320 This story revolves around two women . . . the missing daughter of a wealthy woman and the fiancĂ© of Hamish, the haunting voice of the dead soldier in Ian Rutledge’s shell-shocked mind. The wealthy woman doesn’t believe the body found is her daughter, meanwhile there’s a poison pen letter campaign and going on and smearing Fiona as a woman who has stolen a child and killed the mother. Ian desperately wants to help Fiona but she’s keeping a secret about the child. Ian interviews many characters and re-interviews them before he can get Fiona to trust him and he figures out who is behind it. 1919 Inspector Rutledge has been sent to Scotland. The remains of a female have been found, but do they belong to Lady Eleonor Gray, missing since 1916. Her mother Lady Maude refuses to believe so. Meanwhile in Duncarrick, Fiona MacLeod has been accused and arrested for among other crimes, murder. An enjoyable and well-written historical mystery with its interesting main character geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The weathered remains found on a Scottish mountainside may be those of Eleanor Gray, but the imperious Lady Maude Gray, Eleanor's mother, will have to be handled delicately. This is not the only ground that Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard must tread carefully, for the case will soon lead him to Scotland, where many of Rutledge's ghosts rest uneasily. But it is an unexpected encounter that will hold the most peril. For in Scotland Rutledge will find that the young mother accused of killing Eleanor Gray is a woman to whom he owes a terrible debt. And his harrowing journey to find the truth will lead him back through the fires of his past, into secrets that still have the power to kill. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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