Charles Todd
Charles Todd is the New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, the Bess Crawford mysteries, and one stand-alone novel. A mother-and-son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
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Author Extras
Reading Guides:
The History of Inspector Ian Rutledge
A Complete Timeline of Major Events Leading up to A False Mirror
June 1919 A Test of Wills (Re-issued by Harper mass market—on-sale 12/26/06)
Ian Rutledge, returned home from the trenches of the Great War, loses his fiancée Jean after long months in hospital with what is now called PTSD, and faces a bleak future. Fighting back from the edge of madness, he returns to his career at Scotland Yard. But Chief Superintendent Bowles is determined to break him. And so Rutledge finds himself in Warwickshire where the only witness to the murder of Colonel Harris...
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Q: Can you describe your creative process of collaboration?
A: We had no guidelines when we began to write together, and so we developed our own. It's consensus, the sharing and discussion of ideas that lead to each scene, and while we don't outline, the characters themselves lead us step by step to the conclusion. And whodunit is often as much mystery to us as it is to the reader. That's why we find writing together so exciting.
Q: What are some of the complications in writing mysteries set in an era before the...
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