
Inspector Ian Rutledge, Book 11
by Charles Todd
Charles Todd's A Matter of Justice opens with two soldiers making a wartime choice that reverberates two decades later when a London businessman is found dead. The reading experience alternates between tense battlefield scenes and a methodical unpicking of secret pasts; its useful part is the moral tension and period atmosphere that make motives feel consequential. Main limitation: pacing drags during the investigatory middle and the author restates guilt and memory often, which reduces suspense for readers who prefer lean plotting.
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At the turn of the century, in a war taking place far from England, two soldiers chance upon an opportunity that will change their lives forever. To take advantage of it, they will be required to do the unthinkable, and then to put the past behind them. But not all memories are so short.Twenty years later, a successful London businessman is found s...
Difficulty:hard
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