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A Fearsome Doubt - Charles Todd

By Charles Todd

Release Date: 2002-10-01

Genre: Police Procedural

4 (206 ratings)
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“[Charles] Todd’s mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days.”—The Washington Post Book World 

In 1912 Ian Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. Now, seven years later, Ben Shaw’s widow brings Rutledge evidence she’s convinced proves her husband’s innocence. Ben Shaw’s past is a tangle of unsettling secrets that may or may not be true. And it grows only more twisted when a seemingly unrelated murder brings Rutledge back to Kent. There an unexpected encounter revives his painful memories of war—and the voice of Hamish MacLeod, the soldier Rutledge was forced to execute. Two elusive killers are on the loose at the same time . . . and to catch them before they catch him, Rutledge will be forced to question everything he believes about right, wrong—and murder.

Praise for A Fearsome Doubt

“Brilliant . . . Who’d have thought that Charles Todd’s brilliant concept for a mystery . . . would not only continue but grow stronger from book to book.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“Todd raises the stakes in this series to new and nearly unbearable levels.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A brilliant and gripping whodunit . . . an outstanding historical mystery and literate period fiction.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A Fearsome Doubt - Charles Todd

By Charles Todd

Release Date: 2002-10-01

Genre: Police Procedural

4 (206 ratings)
Read Download
“[Charles] Todd’s mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days.”—The Washington Post Book World 

In 1912 Ian Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. Now, seven years later, Ben Shaw’s widow brings Rutledge evidence she’s convinced proves her husband’s innocence. Ben Shaw’s past is a tangle of unsettling secrets that may or may not be true. And it grows only more twisted when a seemingly unrelated murder brings Rutledge back to Kent. There an unexpected encounter revives his painful memories of war—and the voice of Hamish MacLeod, the soldier Rutledge was forced to execute. Two elusive killers are on the loose at the same time . . . and to catch them before they catch him, Rutledge will be forced to question everything he believes about right, wrong—and murder.

Praise for A Fearsome Doubt

“Brilliant . . . Who’d have thought that Charles Todd’s brilliant concept for a mystery . . . would not only continue but grow stronger from book to book.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“Todd raises the stakes in this series to new and nearly unbearable levels.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A brilliant and gripping whodunit . . . an outstanding historical mystery and literate period fiction.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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A Duty to the Dead

Wings of Fire

A Day of Judgment

An Impartial Witness

Watchers of Time

A Fine Summer's Day

The Confession

Search the Dark

Legacy of the Dead

The Gate Keeper

No Shred of Evidence

The Black Ascot

A Divided Loyalty

A Fearsome Doubt

Hunting Shadows

Proof of Guilt

The Shattered Tree

A Cold Treachery

Question of Honor, A

Racing the Devil

A Bitter Truth

A Pattern of Lies

A Lonely Death

False Mirror, A

An Unmarked Grave

A Long Shadow

An Unwilling Accomplice

A Game of Fear

The Red Door

A Fatal Lie

The Walnut Tree

A Matter of Justice

Pale Horse, A

Forgotten Place, A

A Casualty of War

The Maharani's Pearls

Cruel Deception, A

An Irish Hostage

The Cliff's Edge

The Kidnapping: An Ian Rutledge Original Short Story with Bonus Content

A Hanging at Dawn

The Murder Stone

Cold Comfort

The Piper

Tales

The Pretty Little Box

A Bitter Truth with Bonus Material

The Ian Rutledge Starter

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