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by Todd, Charles
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge has to take matters during some police work with a shrug. Case in point--working in the small community of Dudlington, Rutledge arrives to investigate the attack on Constable Hensley in the spooky Frith?s Wood. He?s shot and wounded by an arrow-- no less--and Hensley?s fellow community residents respond with mixed concern and little interest in assisting Rutledge. It appears though that the wounded constable was quietly pursuing an old criminal matter which morphs into a part of Rutledge?s current investigation. Accompanied by the ghostly voice of Hamish (a deceased soldier) and a mysterious Meredith Channing, Rutledge makes many interview rounds in 1919 Dudlington to put to bed the crimes and personal threats in this nicely written mystery.
- reviewed by Lawrence, South County Regional, PLCMC