On his way to Ely, the fog closes in so densely that he can no longer see to drive. So Rutledge cranks up his motorcar and heads up to Cambridgeshire. A rifle that should have been turned in when the troops left France at the end of the war. Two shootings, apparently unconnected, except that they were both committed using a rifle in a public place. A witness claims that the shooter, whom she glimpsed in a window, was a "monster." This shooting was also committed in public as nearby residents gathered to hear the politician speak. But Rutledge was sent only after a second shooting, this time of a political candidate, which occurred in a nearby town. In this, the 16th in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, the Inspector is sent to the Fens to find a mysterious rifleman who shot an Army officer outside of Ely Cathedral where a society wedding was about to take place. And this enables us, as readers, to venture into those parts of the UK that we might otherwise have missed. His superior is not happy to have him back and tries, at every opportunity, to send him off to work on those cases that have the least chance of resolution and are preferably located farthest from London. Ian Rutledge returned from the war ready to lose himself in his work for Scotland Yard. The Ian Rutledge series is a darker, more atmospheric one, set in post-war Britain and featuring a veteran who struggles with his demons from the war.
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