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Lancashire, England, June, 1920. Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? What did she see before she died? And who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he had never really gone? How is the woman's death linked to his disappearance? And why is Scotland Yard blind to the connection, even when Inspector Ian Rutledge points it out?
Twelve books into a series of mysteries set in England in the aftermath of World War I, the mother and son who team-write under the name of Charles Todd keep finding new ways to gauge the emotional effects of war on the living and the half-dead.
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John Ramsay
reviewed The Red Door (Inspector Ian Rutledge Series #12) on March 27, 2012
The Red Door (Inspector Ian Rutledge Series #12)
When Charles Todd began the Ian Rutledge series, I remember writing an enthusiastic review for my local bookstore, and sharing my delight with friends. I kept my enthusiasm for several of the books in the series, but by book five or six my interest was already flagging. The reason could be the Hamish character, a kind of interesting literary tool, but one which has begun to seem a little ridiculous by book twelve.
In book twelve, The Red Door, Todd commmits the cardinal sin of fiction: the mystery centers around characters we don't care about. The one nice person in the story is killed off in the first chapter, and the rest of her family, however pitiful, is so deceitful and selfish that we're ready to condemn them without knowing if they are guilty or not.
Rutledge still never gets to first base with his dream girl, Meredith Channing (oh, please...I would have given up ages ago). All I want before I give up completely is to see the three of them in bed together...Rutledge, Hamish and Channing.
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