Watchers of Time: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Novel

Historical Literary Fiction

Author: Charles Todd

The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a postwar world. Now a Scotland Yard investigator, Rutledge is called upon to probe a small-town murder — and discovers that it may be connected to one of the greatest disasters of all time….In Osterley, a marshy Norfolk backwater, a man lies dying on a rainy autumn n….Read More

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