The Confession by Charles Todd...Review & Giveaway!

I have been a reading machine lately!  Something about winter makes me want to get all cozy with a book by the fire!  Such bliss!  I just finished another great read that I am excited to tell you about....The Confession by Charles Todd.  Here is the scoop...

Scotland Yard’s best detective, Inspector Ian Rutledge, must solve a dangerous case that reaches far into the past in this superb mystery in the acclaimed series

Declaring he needs to clear his conscience, a dying man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin five years earlier during the Great War. When Inspector Ian Rutledge presses for details, the man evades his questions, revealing only that he hails from a village east of London. With little information and no body to open an official inquiry, Rutledge begins to look into the case on his own.

Less than two weeks later, the alleged killer’s body is found floating in the Thames, a bullet in the back of his head. Searching for answers, Rutledge discovers that the dead man was not who he claimed to be. What was his real name—and who put a bullet in his head? Were the “confession” and his own death related? Or was there something else in the victim’s past that led to his murder?

The inspector’s only clue is a gold locket, found around the dead man’s neck, that leads back to Essex and an insular village whose occupants will do anything to protect themselves from notoriety. For notoriety brings the curious, and with the curious come change and an unwelcome spotlight on a centuries-old act of evil that even now can damn them all.

This was the first book by Charles Tood that I have read but I can now say I am hooked and I am happy this is part of a series.  I thoroughly enjoyed the character of Ian Rutledge and am excited to tag along on more of his cases!  I will say that this book had lots of very enjoyable twists and turns but you did have to pay attention to be sure not to miss a beat (not half awake reading of this one allowed!).  I am a huge fan of historical fiction and Charles Todd masterfully recreated a time from the past.  Not only was I taken on a wonderful mystery but also a trip back in time.  I can hardly wait to go back and read more about what Ian Rutledge has been up to!  Pick up this read today on Amazon...


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