Name: A Cold Treachery

Author: Charles Todd
Year: 2005
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Mystery, Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9780553586619
0553586610
Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the
called "harrowing psychological drama" and the
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...
preparing to strike again.
This book is part of the "Inspector Ian Rutledge" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"A Lonely Death"
First published in 2011
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"The Confession"
First published in 2011
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"The Red Door"
First published in 2009
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"A Matter of Justice"
First published in 2008
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"A Fearsome Doubt"
First published in 2002
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"Watchers of Time"
First published in 2001
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"Legacy of the Dead"
First published in 2000
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"Search the Dark"
First published in 1999
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"Wings of Fire"
First published in 1998
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"A Test of Wills"
First published in 1994
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"A False Mirror"
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"A Long Shadow"
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"A Pale Horse"
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"Proof of Guilt"
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"Hunting Shadows"
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"A Fine Summer's Day"
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"No Shred of Evidence"
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"Racing the Devil"
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"The Gate Keeper"
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"The Black Ascot"
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