A Game Of Fear, Todd - B

                 Rutledge is off to the Essex coast in the spring of 1921. A woman sees a murder outside her window, but there is no body. She is a member of the landed gentry and her suspicions need to be addressed. No one believes her, but Rutledge does his duty. He soon determines that what she saw was a performance to scare her, so someone could access her house. Not long after Ian's arrival in Walcher, a war widow is found murdered on the nearby closed airbase. Clearly, there is someone very bad nearby and Ian goes to work to solve the case. This is a fine addition to the long running series. There is a superb blending of the present and all of the overwhelming anxieties and sadness from the war. To top it off, Ian's promoted to DCI. I compliment the authors for only advancing the tale 2+ years in Ian's time over two and a half decades.