A Divided Loyalty

by Charles Todd

Book 22 in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series.

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Rutledge is asked to review two difficult cases involving unidentified women, one of them found murdered within the prehistoric stone circle at Avebury. Local silence and the absence of ordinary personal clues have defeated the first investigators. As Rutledge widens the search beyond the villages, he uncovers a possible connection that could solve the crimes but also expose him to professional retaliation if he cannot prove it.

The ancient landscape gives the murders an appearance of ritual, yet the real obstacles are modern: mobility, altered identities and institutional rivalry after the war. The title reflects Rutledge’s conflict between loyalty to colleagues, loyalty to Scotland Yard and his obligation to victims who have no one else to name them.