I'm currently reading WINGS OF FIRE by Charles Todd. This is 2nd of 15 in series featuring Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked World War I veteran returning to his job at Scotland Yard, in London. Here is a description:
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is dispatched to Cornwall to investigate three deathsm seemingly a double-suicide and an accident that have occurred within weeks in the Trevelyan family. Still recovering from shell shock sustained while serving in France during WWI, Rutledge carries in his head the challenging voice of Hamish MacLeod, a Scottish soldier about whose battlefront death Rutledge experiences profound guilt. In the village of Borcombe, Rutledge learns that one of the apparent suicides, Olivia Marlowe, wrote as O.A. Manning, a poet whose work had uncannily captured both the misery of war and the passion and beauty of love. Olivia Marlowe and her devoted half-brother Nicholas Cheney died of poisoning within hours of each other. Another half-brother, Stephen FitzHugh, the only family member opposed to selling the family estate where Olivia and Nicholas lived, fell down the stairs to his death not long after the funeral.
It was published in 1998 and has 320 pages. This is from the library.
I'm about halfway through it. I have a couple holds at the libary to pick up so I can't dawdle. They're both nonfiction.
I'm picking up Steve from the airport tonight. So far no flight problems like on the way down. He wasn't able to make a quicker connection though than Las Vegas to LA to Denver and home.
Before that, however, I'm checking out a new series on BBC America starring Mathew MacFadyen called Ripper Street, set in Victorian London. I like the actor; we'll see how it goes.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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