A game of fear : a novel
Todd, Charles2022
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Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex, where amongst the salt flats and a military airfield lies Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past. The lady of the house may prove his most bewildering witness yet. She claims she saw a violent murder, but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognised the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war. Everyone in the village believes that Lady Benton's losses have turned her mind - she is, after all, a grieving widow and mother, but the woman Rutledge interviews is rational and self-possessed. And then there is Captain Nelson: what really happened to him in the war? The more Rutledge delves into this baffling case, the more suspicious tragedies he uncovers.
Main title:
A game of fear : a novel / Charles Todd.
Author:
Todd, Charles, author
Imprint:
New York : William Morrow, 2022.
Collation:
320 pages ; 23 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780062905598 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6C
LC class:
PS3570.O37
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3124578