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As a huge fan of the Ian Rutledge series, I enjoyed this seventeenth edition which provides a glimpse into Ian's world before the start of World War I.
With multiple murders in the book, the characters are many, numbering over twenty primary with additional secondary characters. Their stories are varied but similar with the pace leaning to the slow side. But one of the reasons I like this series is that the police procedurals are fundamental, based on intellect, personal involvement and legwork without the benefit of modern day technology.
The emotion of the onset of war was very real to me. The spirit and excitement of the beginning of the war is slowly replaced by the realities of what is to come with the final scene of the book.
This is a good place to start reading the series, knowing that even stronger, more interesting stories are waiting in the next sixteen volumes.


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A Fine Summer Day An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries Charles Todd 9780062237125 Books Reviews

At the beginning of A FINE SUMMER'S DAY, the Great War has not yet begun. Ian Rutledge's relationship with the girl who will become his fiance gets considerable attention and readers who have stayed with the series (and I would assume that is most, because they are such wonderful books) will learn more of the backstory. Embedded in the story of the investigations Rutledge has to conduct is the reaction of the people of the time as they try to come to grips with the reality that war is coming and then has come. The idea that war is all glory and nobility controls much of the excitement and willingness to rush to sign up before it all ends in two weeks, and Rutledge has to deal with his belief that there is little truth in that. The detective work and the tools they have fit the times; eliminating suspects is never simple. I love this series.
"A Fine Summer's Day", by the mother/son writing team of "Charles Todd" is the latest in their "Inspector Rutledge" series. They also write the "Bess Crawford" series. I read both series and I think they've maintained their "Rutledge" series a bit better than their "Crawford" one. Both series are about England during and after WW1 ("The Great War"), though this new book is actually set in 1914 and is a prequel to the earlier books. In "Summer's Day", Ian Rutledge's life and job as a Scotland Yard inspector is explained in the context of the summer before WW1.

"Context" in a book's plot is almost as important as "characters" to the reader. Many authors set their stories in a rather time-less setting which makes grabbing on to a plot difficult. "A Fine Summer's Day", beginning in June, 1914, brings Rutledge and his family and friends into a war-footing as the events in far-away Sarajevo, Berlin, Vienna, and at home in London come together in terrifying form as millions of young men prepare to march off to glorious battle. (And, of course, they'll ALL be "home by Christmas, 1914"...).

A BIT OF A SPOILER FOLLOWS Our old friend Ian Rutledge is a bit at sixes-and-sevens that beautiful summer of 1914. He's just become engaged to the spoiled daughter of an Army officer, who the reader knows from previous books jilts him during his time in the Army. (One of the nice things about writing a review of a prequel is that there are very few "spoilers"!) He's risen to the rank of Inspector at Scotland Yard and runs around in very cool car. But, he's also just tragically lost his parents in a ferry accident and lives with his younger sister. He doesn't get along with his immediate superior at the Yard and there is the uncertainty of war as the "cooler heads" of diplomats and rulers do all the wrong things after the assassination in Sarajevo in June and war is declared in August.

Scotland Yard is asked to assist in a murder investigation of a man found hung in his house. The man has lived a blameless life and local authorities cannot understand why he would either be murdered or commit suicide. Several other men around southern England are also found dead with a glass of milk containing laudanum near their bodies. Suddenly Rutledge's investigation of one murder spirals into investigations of other suspected murders. He motors around southern England - the authors have helpfully included a map of England in the front of the book - and gets an "idea" about the murders that is not found acceptable in Scotland Yard. Between times on the road, Rutledge is also in London, attempting to placate his spoiled fiance, Jean Gordon.

The Todd's book is just a grand story of life and crime and ultimate justice in that summer of 1914. The novel also includes characters from the other Todd series, "Bess Crawford". I've been waiting for the two series to intersect and in "A Fine Summer's Day" they begin to do just that.

For the Charles Todd/Inspector Rutledge fan, this is another winner.
I've liked everything the Charles Todd writers have written, but this one felt weaker than most. In part, I think, because it's a prequel, and after reading a very long sequence of stories that greatly develop the main character and his situation, it's hard to go back to the beginning, enlist the reader's interest in the much more callow man he used to be, and write convincingly about that person. We, the readers, just know him too well by now, and there's been too much tragedy that's happened along the way for us to just pretend it's not there. To some degree, reading about Rutledge's engagement to Jean whilst knowing she's going to abandon him adds pathos to the story, but all the evidence offered in this book of just how wrong she was for him and how everyone else could see it and he couldn't, simply emphasizes his youth, when he doesn't actually seem very much younger here than he does in the earlier books of the series. So partly I'm downgrading this book because of the dislocation in time, partly because the mystery wasn't very mysterious, and partly because the extended pursuit didn't elicit much concern on my part and the denouement didn't have the aching ferocity or moral bite that Charles Todd has managed in other books. It's a nice ordinary mystery from writers who generally offer an awful lot more.
I kind of hate when authors go back in time in the middle of a series. We know the character backgrounds from other books, so we don't need to go back in time midway through the series to read a full book about it! My main takeaway from this book was that Jean was THE WORST and it kind of felt like the authors wrote this book just to prove to the readers that Ian should get over Jean so he can date someone else. The mystery was kind of interesting though, and a bit darker than Rutledge's mysteries often are.
Very good
As a huge fan of the Ian Rutledge series, I enjoyed this seventeenth edition which provides a glimpse into Ian's world before the start of World War I.
With multiple murders in the book, the characters are many, numbering over twenty primary with additional secondary characters. Their stories are varied but similar with the pace leaning to the slow side. But one of the reasons I like this series is that the police procedurals are fundamental, based on intellect, personal involvement and legwork without the benefit of modern day technology.
The emotion of the onset of war was very real to me. The spirit and excitement of the beginning of the war is slowly replaced by the realities of what is to come with the final scene of the book.
This is a good place to start reading the series, knowing that even stronger, more interesting stories are waiting in the next sixteen volumes.