Review: Enjoyable, but no new background information.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
Being a long time fan of the Charles Todd novels I was glad to find a novella focusing on the Ian Rutledge character.  This short story shows off Rutledge's deductive and investigative skills while he was serving in the military behind the lines in France.  One of the men under his command claims that two other men of the company have tried to kill him and seem to be continuing their mission.  Rutledge feels it is his duty as their commanding officer to get to the bottom of the situation.I enjoyed this story.  I had hoped it would go further into the relationship which existed between Hamish MacLeod and Rutledge during their service in combat, but Hamish does not have much of a part to play here at all.  It was interesting to read, but since it compromised only 60% of the download and did not provide any additional insights into the Hamish/Rutledge history I could have easily skipped this and not lost any important information.  The remainder of the Kindle download is the first two chapters forHunting Shadows: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)due out in the next few weeks.  So ultimately this story was interesting but hardly essential to understanding the full length novels.