Racing The Devil, Todd - B

                                               This series is as good as it gets, in taking the reader to a different time and place: rural England immediately after the Great War.  It is a quiet time of despair as all struggle with the consequences of the violence.  Our lead character is, of course, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge. He wrestles with his ghosts from the trenches, as do all who survived the western front. This book is specifically about survivors, and one in particular who happens to be a deserter and ultimately, a serial killer. Rutledge works the case as hard as any we've seen. He persists and pulls together the pieces to convict his man on a pretty long investigation in the southeast of the country.