Charles Todd

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1996
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bess Crawford Mystery

1 - A Duty to the Dead (Sep-2009)
2 - An Impartial Witness (Sep-2010)
3 - A Bitter Truth (Sep-2011)
4 - An Unmarked Grave (Jun-2012)
5 - A Question of Honor (Sep-2013)
5.5 - The Maharani's Pearls (Jul-2014)
6 - An Unwilling Accomplice (Aug-2014)
7 - A Pattern of Lies (Aug-2015)
8 - The Shattered Tree (Sep-2016)
9 - A Casualty of War (Oct-2017)
10 - A Forgotten Place (Sep-2018)
11 - A Cruel Deception (Oct-2019)
11.5 - A Hanging at Dawn (Dec-2020)
12 - An Irish Hostage (Jul-2021)
13 - The Cliff's Edge (Feb-2023)

An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

1 - A Test of Wills (Aug-1996)
2 - Wings of Fire (Mar-1998)
3 - Search the Dark (May-1999)
4 - Legacy of the Dead (Oct-2000)
5 - Watchers of Time (Oct-2001)
6 - A Fearsome Doubt (Oct-2002)
7 - A Cold Treachery (Jan-2005)
8 - A Long Shadow (Jan-2006)
9 - A False Mirror (Jan-2007)
10 - A Pale Horse (Jan-2008)
11 - A Matter of Justice (Jan-2009)
12 - The Red Door (Jan-2010)
13 - A Lonely Death (Jan-2011)
14 - The Confession (Jan-2012)
15 - Proof of Guilt (Feb-2013)
15.5 - Cold Comfort (Nov-2013)
16 - Hunting Shadows (Jan-2014)
17 - A Fine Summer's Day (Jan-2015)
18 - No Shred of Evidence (Feb-2016)
18.5 - The Piper (Jan-2017)
19 - Racing the Devil (Feb-2017)
20 - The Gatekeeper (Feb-2018)
21 - The Black Ascot (Feb-2019)
22 - A Divided Loyalty (Feb-2020)
23 - A Fatal Lie (Feb-2021)
24 - A Game of Fear (Feb-2022)
The Kidnapping (Dec-2010)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

32 - The Pretty Little Box (Mar-2018)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • A Test of Wills

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 1

    It's 1919, and the War to End All Wars has been won. But for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France, there is no peace. Suffering from shell shock, tormented by the mocking, ever-present voice of the y...

  • Wings of Fire

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 2

    Inspector Ian Rutledge is quickly sent to investigate the sudden deaths of three members of the same eminent Cornwall family, but the World War I veteran soon realizes that nothing about this case is routine. Including the identity of one of the dead...

  • Search the Dark

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 3

    A dead woman and two missing children bring Inspector Rutledge to the lovely Dorset town of Singleton Magna, where the truth lies buried with the dead. A tormented veteran whose family died in an enemy bombing is the chief suspect. Dubious, Rutledge ...

  • Legacy of the Dead

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 4

    The weathered remains found on a Scottish mountainside may be those of Eleanor Gray, but the imperious Lady Maude Gray, Eleanor's mother, will have to be handled delicately. This is not the only ground that Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard mus...

  • Watchers of Time

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 5

    In a marshy Norfolk backwater, a priest is brutally murdered after giving a dying man last rites. For Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge, an ex-officer still 'recovering from the trauma of war, it looks to be a simple case. Yet the Inspector finds himself ...

  • A Fearsome Doubt

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 6

    In 1912 [Scotland Yard Inspector] Ian Rutledge watched as a man was condemned to hang for the murders of elderly women. Rutledge had helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. And when justice was done, Rutledge closed the door on ...

  • The Murder Stone

    The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather dies on the family estate in England's isolated Exe Valley. Grieving for the man who raised her, Francesca is stunned to find an unsigned letter among h...

  • A Cold Treachery

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 7

    "You'll hang for this -- see if you don't! That's my revenge! And you'll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down...." Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutle...

  • A Long Shadow

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 8

    Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge brought the Great War home with him -- and its horrors haunt him still. On New Year's Eve, 1919, he finds a brass cartridge casing -- similar to countless others he'd seen on the battlefield -- on the steps of a...



  • Home Coming

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • A False Mirror

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 9

    Hampton Regis, a small harbor town on the southern coast of England, is a most unlikely place for violence. Yet, one spring morning, a man is found on the strand so severely beaten that he slips in and out of consciousness. The prime suspect? His wif...

  • A Pale Horse

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 10

    In the ruins of Yorkshire's Fountains Abbey lies the body of a man wrapped in a cloak, the face covered by a gas mask. Next to him is a book on alchemy, which belongs to the schoolmaster, a conscientious objector in the Great War. Who is this man, an...

  • A Matter of Justice

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 11

    At the turn of the century, in a war taking place far from England, two soldiers chance upon an opportunity that will change their lives forever. To take advantage of it, they will be required to do the unthinkable, and then to put the past behind th...

  • A Duty to the Dead

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 1

    England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer fathe...

  • The Red Door

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 12

    New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd brings back Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge in another riveting mystery set in post-World War I England Lancashire, England, June 1920. In a house with a red door lies the body of a woman who has be...

  • An Impartial Witness

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 2

    World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in A Duty to the Dead, returns in an exciting new mystery in which a murder draws her inexorably into the sights of a cunning killer It is the early summer of 1917. Bess Crawford has returned to England ...

  • The Kidnapping

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

    In an original short story by New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge must put all his detecting skills to use to solve a baffling case. A man and his young daughter were returning home from a dinner party...

  • A Lonely Death

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 13

    Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge returns to solve his most exciting and shocking case yet in this latest entry in the bestselling series hailed as outstanding by the New York Times Book Review A breathtaking blend of psychological complexity, ...

  • A Bitter Truth

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 3

    When battlefield nurse Bess Crawford returns from France for a well-earned Christmas leave, she finds a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway of her London residence. The woman has nowhere to turn, and, propelled by a firm sense of duty,...



  • The Confession

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 14

    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 ...

  • An Unmarked Grave

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 4

    World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford matches wits with a devious killer in this exciting and suspenseful adventure from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd In the spring of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic spreads, killing m...

  • The Walnut Tree

    "I was in Paris the day the French Army was mobilized." In 1914, while visiting her friend Madeleine, Lady Elspeth Douglas's life is thrown into chaos when war breaks out and the Germans quickly overrun Belgium, threatening France. Having just ag...

  • Proof of Guilt

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 15

    Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge must contend with two dangerous enemies in this latest complex mystery in the New York Times bestselling series An unidentified body appears to have been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the investiga...

  • A Question of Honor

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 5

    In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, a search for the truth that will transform her and l...

  • Cold Comfort

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 15.5

    A brand-new Ian Rutledge e-original novella from Charles Todd, including a special excerpt from the next Rutledge novel, Hunting Shadows, available this January. It’s 1915, and the Great War is barely six months old. Lieutenant Ian Rutledge has ...

  • Hunting Shadows

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 16

    A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge in Hunting Shadows, a gripping and atmospheric historical mystery set in 1920s England, from acclaimed New Yo...

  • The Maharani's Pearls

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 5.5

    Living with her family in India, young Bess Crawford's curiosity about this exotic country sometimes leads her into trouble. One day she slips away from the cantonment to visit the famous seer in a nearby village. Before this woman can finish tell...

  • An Unwilling Accomplice

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 6

    World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career and life are in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd Arriving in London on l...

  • A Fine Summer's Day

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 17

    New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers into Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge's past--to his perplexing final case before the outbreak of World War I. On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice t...



  • A Pattern of Lies

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 7

    An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It’s called an appalling tragedy -- until suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caugh...

  • Tales

    Now published together for the first time: Charles Todd's absorbing short stories -- "The Kidnapping," "The Girl on the Beach," "Cold Comfort," and "The Maharani's Pearls" -- featuring everyone's favorite Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge and intr...

  • No Shred of Evidence

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 18

    In this absorbing new entry in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is caught up in a twisted web of vengeance and murder. On the north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy is repaid by an arrest f...

  • The Hair of the Dog

    in Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional

  • The Tennis Partner

    When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addition, and t...

  • A Guid Soldier

    Set during Inspector Rutledge's time in the Great War, Charles Todd's short story introduces a born killer.It's World War I, and young Glaswegian Dougal Kerr is a new recruit in the British army. Dougal has no family and no past, but his easygoing de...

  • The Shattered Tree

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 8

    World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background--and uncover his true loyalties--in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Ti...

  • The Piper

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 18.5

    Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge returns shell shocked from the trenches of World War I, tormented by the memory of Hamish MacLeod, the young Scots soldier he executed on the battlefield. Now, Charles Todd features Hamish himself in this compelli...

  • Racing the Devil

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 19

    Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series. On the eve of the bloody Battle of the ...

  • The Cottage

    in Malice Domestic 12: Murder Most Historical



  • A Casualty of War

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 9

    From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it -- officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford. Though the Great War is nearing it...

  • The Gatekeeper

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 20

    On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twenti...

  • The Pretty Little Box

    Bibliomysteries - 32

    A simple theft leads to unforeseen tragedy in this story from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries.   In a quaint antiquarian bookshop in the Midlands of England, a woman is captivated by a rare gilt-ed...

  • A Forgotten Place

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 10

    Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the w...

  • The Black Ascot

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 21

    Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible -- but Inspector Ian ...

  • A Cruel Deception

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 11

    In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer in this eleventh book in the beloved Bess Crawford mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. The Arm...

  • A Divided Loyalty

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 22

    Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career -- a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow. Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague...

  • A Hanging at Dawn

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 11.5

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon’s past. Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurs...

  • A Fatal Lie

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 23

    In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge must delve deep into a dead man’s life and his past to find a killer determined to keep dark secrets buried. A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified...

  • An Irish Hostage

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 12

    In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland -- in this twelfth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. The Great War is over -- but in Ireland, in the wake of the bloody ...



  • Money Is Easy

    MONEY IS EASY is a Christian-based illustrated children's rhyming book that debuts Money Mike, a super cool money tree that branches out with the message, Money is as easy as counting one, two, three! Money Mike interacts with a young boy and girl, s...

  • A Game of Fear

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery - 24

    In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost. Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard send...

  • Blood Money

    Sometimes the most mundane circumstances lead to much more than expected. In Blood Money, a frightened cat in a tree is more than a simple nuisance interrupting Rutledge on his way to the office. Secrets from the Great War and resentment are waiting ...

  • The Cliff's Edge

    A Bess Crawford Mystery - 13

    In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.Restless and uncertain of her fut...

Award-Winning Books by Charles Todd

A Lonely Death
2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Mystery
A Question of Honor
2013 Agatha Award -- Historical
The Shattered Tree
2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Mary Higgins Clark Award
An Unmarked Grave
2013 Macavity Award -- Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Todd has published 53 books.

Charles Todd does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Cliff's Edge, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Charles Todd, A Test of Wills, was published in August 1996.

Yes. Charles Todd has 2 series.
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