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    Legacy of the Dead
    Legacy of the Dead
    Legacy of the Dead
    Audiobook11 hours

    Legacy of the Dead

    Written by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

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    The weathered remains of Eleanor Gray are found on a Scottish mountainside, and her mother, the domineering Lady Maude Gray, requires delicate treatment. This is a case that will lead Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard to Scotland, where his harrowing journey to find the truth will drag him back through thefires of his past into secrets that still have the power to kill.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 19, 2012
    ISBN9781470333478
    Legacy of the Dead
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    Charles Todd

    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, Caroline passed away in August 2021 and Charles lives in Florida.

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    • 4/5
      Great story but there are audio issues with this recording

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    • 5/5
      This Ian Rutledge book doesn’t disappoint. There are so many stories going on within the story that it’s hard some time to keep track of the characters. It has a couple of red herrings as usual. I “glimpsed” it early own but never got the real thread of the killer. And there was one of those classic “wow, I didn’t see that coming moments” which only added to the suspense. It does do what I am never very pleased with in a book, as if to force me to read the next one in the series, namely, pretty much leaving it hanging at the end. Not that the mystery and the murder aren’t solved..they are. But the final outcome for many of the players is left incomplete. But since the next story relies, at least in part, on the after effects of these incomplete details, I’m ok with it. Great book. Great writing team. Too bad one of them has now passed.
    • 4/5
      1919 Inspector Rutledge has been sent to Scotland. The remains of a female have been found, but do they belong to Lady Eleonor Gray, missing since 1916. Her mother Lady Maude refuses to believe so. Meanwhile in Duncarrick, Fiona MacLeod has been accused and arrested for among other crimes, murder.
      An enjoyable and well-written historical mystery with its interesting main character
    • 4/5
      The fourth novel in the Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge series sends him to determine if the missing daughter of a courtesan of the King is dead. Having read most of this series, I finally made my way back to number four. I think it is the most referenced episode in all the subsequent books. It has a nice balance of characters and mystery with lots of conflicting interests in play. The aftermath of the war plays a part of its own.
    • 4/5
      These books are hard to put down.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Ian returns to Scotland to see his godfather. While there he gets involved in solving the murder of someone who is long dead. As it turns out, this is tied into a missing person's report. It is also ironic that the woman suspected of the crime is the girl Hamish was to marry. All of the feelings, fears, and doubts continue to haunt Ian, keeping him from seeing clearly the clues to the outcomes of the mysteries.Review: This is another tightly woven mystery with additional background information about Hamish and his family.
    • 4/5
      Another good story in this excellent "tween the wars" mystery series. The Todds continue to mine that inexhaustible wealth of angst that was World War 1. Once more, Rutledge is sent on a likely futile quest into the hinterlands. This search is confounded by the presence of his dead corporal's fiance and the young child in her care. Much small town bigotry and intolerance create an almost insurmountable environment for seeking the truth. The inspector's sheer bloodymindedness prevails and results in a deadly final confrontation.
    • 4/5
      Ian Rutledge is again sent out of London to the countryside, this time to southern Scotland, where he dreads to be. A woman is presumed to be dead, and also presumed to be the mother of a young boy in a town riven with rumor and hate, and the boy's known mother is arrested for the death. Rutledge is sent to find the proof that the first woman is indeed dead, but the identity of the accused is a shock. It takes a while to unwind, and some of the resulting reveal is rather blatantly telegraphed, but I didn't have a clue to the perpetrator or the true identity of the boy's mother until the final chapter.
    • 4/5
      Another excellent mystery from Charles Todd. Rutledge is packed off to Scotland to investigate the connection between a skeleton found in the mountains and the disappearance of a wealthy socialite three years earlier. The Lowlands are Hamish's turf, however, and Rutledge has to contend with the ghosts of two men while working hard to untangle the secrets and lies of a small Scottish town.This is one of the best books in the series so far - the mystery is skilfully plotted, merging two cases with only a tenuous connection, and the characters really come to life. Rutledge visits his godfather for the first time since the war, providing further insight into his past, and the woman at the centre of the murder mystery is none other than Hamish's beloved fiancee, Fiona! Todd handles the clash of imagination, or memory, and reality well - 'Hamish', as he now exists in the detective's mind, can only share with Rutledge what personal details he told his commanding officer before he died. He only exists as Rutledge's post-war conscience, a constant reminder of the trauma he suffered, and not as a supernatural presence. Rutledge's anguish is his own, but his feelings for Fiona are driven by his debt to Hamish.I can't repeat often enough how beautifully and accurately written these books are - time and place are evinced in subtle detail, transporting the reader back in time to post-war Britain. The temptation to romanticise the past, or paint a pastoral picture of village life, is tempered by harsh reality. Todd writes from the perspective of his characters, not Baedecker's Guide to Great Britain: 'There always seemed to more sky in Scotland than in England, a different sky. Vast and empty, as if God weren't at home'. His prose is evocative, not mawkish.There are a couple of slightly frustrating loose ends - what becomes of the devoted police constable, who is one of my favourite secondary characters in these novels, and how will the outcome of the case impact Rutledge's own family? Hopefully the second question will be answered in one of the following Inspector Rutledge mysteries!