A Pale Horse Lib/E

Product Description
Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the devil. Instead, they stumble over the devil himself, sitting there watching them. Terrified, they run for their lives, leaving behind a book on alchemy stolen from their schoolmaster. The next morning, a body is discovered in the cloisters of the abbey-a man swathed in a hooded cloak and wearing a gas mask.
Scotland Yard dispatches Inspector Rutledge to find out who the man was and why he died in such mysterious circumstances. But the villagers clearly have something to hide. And what does the huge chalk sculpture of a pale horse of the Apocalypse have to do with the crime?
Review
A Pale Horse is, like its protagonist, a melancholy triumph.-- "Richmond Times-Dispatch"


Evocatively and suspensefully written...This is a terrific mystery, carefully spun, which leads us into the dark realms of the postwar era and reveals even darker plots.-- "Providence Journal"


Simon Prebble, the voice of Charles Todd's mysteries, creates another winner with this moody tale of soured love in the Yorkshire dales...Prebble reads atmospherically without over dramatizing the action, and the wide range of characters is well drawn.-- "AudioFile "


The exemplary tenth Inspector Ian Rutledge historical whodunit (after A False Mirror) offers tight plotting and rich characterization amid understated but convincing evocations of post-WWI England.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"


The tragic sweep of Charles Todd's historical mysteries grows more expansive with each successive novel in his stunning series.-- "New York Times Book Review"


This mother-son writing team delivers another spine-tingling mystery...Great characters and a fast-paced plot make this novel a page-turner.-- "RT Book Reviews (4 stars)"


Todd's rendering of characters-especially those of the country folk inhabiting rural Yorkshire-is absolutely superb.-- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"
About the Author
Charles Todd is the New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries and the Bess Crawford mysteries. A mother-and-son writing team, they live on the East Coast.


Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile's Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.