Hunting Shadows (Ian Rutledge)
It&#x2019;s the summer of 1920, and Scotland Yard&#x2019;s Inspector Ian Rutledge has a tricky case on his hands. Someone has murdered two men in the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire. Try as he might, Rutledge can&#x2019;t seem to find any connection between the victims&#x2014;a military man from out of town and a local political candidate&#x2014;although it does appear that the killer is a sharpshooter, a fact that does not sit well with Rutledge, a war veteran himself, or with Hamish, Rutledge&#x2019;s interior companion (the manifestation, series fans know, of Rutledge&#x2019;s guilt over the death of a friend in the war). There are a lot of questions, but perhaps the most pressing is whether Rutledge&#x2019;s memories of war, sparked by these recent murders, are distracting annoyances or the key to solving the case? Another well-written, well-plotted entry in this always engaging mystery series. --David Pitt