Racing the Devil

#19 Ian Rutledge

Charles Todd

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Harper Collins
07 February 2018

Fiction & Literature; Historical mysteries; Thriller & suspense

Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

In late June 1916, before the bloody Battle of the Somme, several English officers have a last drink before returning to the Front. Besides the war, they also have a passion for motorcars in common. Daring fate, they swear to meet in Paris a year after the war ends to celebrate their survival by racing motorcars from Paris to Nice.

In November 1919, five remaining officers set out for Nice. But in the hills high above the coast, one vehicle is nearly run off the twisting, fog-shrouded road, while another is sent over. No one saw the driver of the rogue motorcar.

A year later, in England, a local vicar driving along the Sussex coastline in a blinding rainstorm loses control and is killed. Was it an accident Another set of tire tracks raises suspicions of something far darker, especially since he had borrowed the motorcar from a neighbor who had fought on the Somme.

Was this a case of mistaken identity, in some way connected to the rogue driver in the mountains above Nice Or was the dead man actually the intended victim

Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that there is an elusive killer here on the high chalk cliffs, one who shows no mercy, hunting his prey with a cunning learned in the trenches.

By: Charles Todd
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 19
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780062386229
ISBN 10: 0062386220
Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 07 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles Todd is the New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, the Bess Crawford mysteries, and two stand-alone novels. A mother-and-son writing team, they live on the East Coast.

Reviews for Racing the Devil (#19 Ian Rutledge)

A superb entry in a superb series: an exquisite sense of time and place, a satisfying mystery with a breathless conclusion, and above all the complex, haunted, charismatic Inspector Ian Rutledge himself-truly one of crime fiction's most absorbing characters. -- Lee Child, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Praise for No Shred of Evidence: It's that melancholy tone, the legacy of the trenches, that gives Todd's polite rural mystery such uncommon depth. -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review on NO SHRED OF EVIDENCE Poirot was one name, Holmes was another, and Rutledge deserves to be in that classic pack of crime solvers. -- Suspense Magazine on NO SHRED OF EVIDENCE Fans already mourning the end of Downton Abbey can easily get their English fix by following Rutledge and Hamish on their rounds. -- Wilmington Star News on NO SHRED OF EVIDENCE The mother and son team, who write as Charles Todd, deftly capture the atmosphere of post World War I England in this complex mystery which will appeal to fans of British mysteries. -- Iron Mountain Daily News on NO SHRED OF EVIDENCE Praise for the Ian Rutledge series: I love series that follow particular characters over time and through their experiences, so I automatically read the latest installments from ... Charles Todd. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Times Book Review Todd writes a rich mystery, but in investigating the murder Rutledge also probes the psychic wounds of the village and tries to minister to the collective survivor guilt of the living. `The dead,' as the voice in his head tells him, `still believe it was worth dying for.' -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review on RACING THE DEVIL Charles Todd (actually a mother-son writing team) pulls off the voice-in-the-head device exquisitely. Moreover, the series is populated with highly nuanced characters, and the historical research is spot on. In Racing the Devil, the pacing is compelling. -- Newark Star Ledger Todd's rich storytelling shines in Racing the Devil, showing an England forever changed by The Great War, yet determined to survive. -- South Florida Sun Sentinel