![]() ![]() Memorable characters, subtle plot twists, the evocative seaside setting and descriptions of architecture, the moors and the sea fully reward the attention this novel commands. ![]() ![]() Todd's cast is sometimes hard to keep straight, but readers will find it hard to resist following Rutledge on this emotionally intense quest. Searching for answers about the deaths and for an understanding of the poet, Rutledge finds himself on a decades-long trail of cleverly disguised murders. Another half-brother, Stephen FitzHugh, the only family member opposed to selling the family estate where Olivia and Nicholas lived, fell down the stairs to his death not long after the funeral. Olivia Marlowe and her devoted half-brother Nicholas Cheney died of poisoning within hours of each other. Manning, a poet whose work had uncannily captured both the misery of war and the passion and beauty of love. In the village of Borcombe, Rutledge learns that one of the apparent suicides, Olivia Marlowe, wrote as O.A. Still recovering from shell shock sustained while serving in France during WWI, Rutledge carries in his head the challenging voice of Hamish MacLeod, a Scottish soldier about whose battlefront death Rutledge experiences profound guilt. The matriarch of the Hall had been Rosamund Beatrice Trevelyan, the beautiful and infectiously happy daughter of Adrian Trevelyan. ![]() In a brilliant return after his introduction in A Test of Wills (1996), Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is dispatched to Cornwall to investigate three deaths-seemingly a double-suicide and an accident-that have occurred within weeks in the Trevelyan family. In 'Wings of Fire' Charles Todd has all eyes focusing on a grand English country house called, quite simply, the Hall. ![]()
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