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A Game of Fear

von Charles Todd

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In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.

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 murderâ??but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized 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 mindâ??she is, after all, a grieving widow and motherâ??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. The Abbey and the airfield hold their secrets tightly. Until Rutledge arrives, and a new trail of death follow… (mehr)

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In this latest installment of the series, Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent to the Essex coast to investigate a supposed murder, though there's no body and the murderer is a man long dead. However, Lady Benton is a credible witness, and there seem to be more mysteries tied to the nearby abandoned air base.
Ian Rutledge is such a fascinating detective. A victim of PTSD from WWI, he is 'accompanied' by his former Sargeant Hamish, who he was forced to shoot when the man refused orders and then was buried with when a bomb exploded. Hamish doesn't seem to hold a grudge; the two were friends, but Hamish couldn't obey the orders from a superior that were massacring their men.
The mystery takes a while to unfold, but each step is fascinating as the case builds. It's another good book in this historical mystery series. ( )
  N.W.Moors | Dec 6, 2022 |
Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent off into the boonies of Essex 'chasing ghosts.' Rutledge seems more in balance with himself, less tortured by Hamish in this story which made it a better read. Instead of ghosts, Rutledge uncovers a series of murders beginning even before WWI. ( )
  cfk | Nov 27, 2022 |
Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.
It’s spring 1921. Scotland Yard has sent Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walter where an ex military airfield once stood on the estate of Benton Abbey. The ,day of the manor may prove to be his most bewildering witness. She claims she saw a violent murder-but there is no body, no blood. She also insists that she recognized the murderer, Captain Nelson, who died during the war.
The more Rutledge delves into the case, the more suspicious tragedies he uncovers. ( )
  creighley | Sep 26, 2022 |
In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.
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 recognized 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...
  paswell | Sep 3, 2022 |
The story, prose, characterization, and insight into human nature are all superlative. All are ruined by the execrable proofreading and editing.

It isn't merely a case of typographical errors. It is as though someone transcribed the manuscript with autofill on steroids. "Council" instead of "counsel" is an all-to typical example. Have we no proofreaders, have we no literate people, in this country any more?

There are other cases of paragraphing gone wrong, so much so that the sense is lost. To what or to whom do the pronouns refer? Were the paragraphing correct, there would be no doubt.

Here these people are, drawing big salaries, putting out big-selling books. But their books are riddled with errors that would cause a sixth-grader to fail an English test, in normal times. What the hell? ( )
  zcoot | Jun 21, 2022 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:

In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.

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 murderâ??but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized 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 mindâ??she is, after all, a grieving widow and motherâ??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. The Abbey and the airfield hold their secrets tightly. Until Rutledge arrives, and a new trail of death follow

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