The Red Door: An Inspector Rutledge Mystery [Paperback]

“One of the best historical series being written today.”

—WashingtonPost Book World

The accolades keep pouring in for Charles Todd and hisNew York TimesNotable, Edgar® Award-nominatedseries featuring British police inspector and shell-shocked World War I veteran Ian Rutledge. InThe Red Door,a disturbing puzzle surrounding a lie, a disappearance, and a woman’s death ensnares the haunted investigator. Richly atmospheric and unputdownable,The Red Doorproves once more thatNew York Timesbestseller Charles Todd belongs in the august company of Ruth Rendell, Anne Perry, Martha Grimes, Ian Ransom, Peter Robinson, P.D. James, and the other contemporary masters of British mystery.

At the end of a terrible war, a woman painted the door to her house red to welcome her husband home from the Front . . . but he never returned. Two years later, in the English summer of 1920, she lies lifeless behind that door, savagely bludgeoned to death.

In London, a man suffering from a mysterious illness goes missing, and his family melÓ#