Do you watch British mysteries on Masterpiece Theater? Then you will probably enjoy this book. Todd's books take place after WWI - no cell phones, DNA, databases - well you get the idea. It takes a long time to solve a crime! Inspector Rutledge is one of Scotland Yard's best but he still deals with a lot of trauma from the war. One day a man walks into the Yard to confess that he killed his cousin during the war. The man is obviously quite ill and says he wants to get it off of his conscious before he dies. Rutledge has little to go on and there is no body so the Yard really isn't interested. But Rutledge is so he begins to do some private sleuthing. Two weeks later the 'confessor'/killer shows up in the river, a victim of foul play. Around the guy's neck is a locket with a picture of a woman. And one other thing - the dead man had given Rutledge a false name when he confessed. So if you like slow mysteries with lots of character development I think you will enjoy it. (I listened to the audiobook with all those great accents!).
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