Caroline and Charles Todd

"Charles Todd" is a pen name used by the American authors Caroline and Charles Todd. This mother-and-son writing team lives in the eastern United States, in North Carolina and Delaware respectively.

The authors are best known for a series of ten novels, set in post World War I England. These intelligent and literate books deal with the cases of Inspector Ian Rutledge, a veteran of the European campaigns who is attempting to pick up the pieces of his Scotland Yard career. However, he must keep his greatest burden a secret: suffering from shell shock, he lives with the constant, cynical, taunting voice of Hamish MacLeod, a young Scots soldier he was forced to execute on the battlefield for refusing an order.

Recognition and Awards

"A Test of Wills" (1996) was nominated for the John Creasey Award in the United Kingdom; other nominations are the Edgar Award, an Anthony, and the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Dilys Award. The work won the Barry Gardiner Award from the Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association named "A Test of Wills" one of the 100 favorite mysteries of the 20th Century, and it received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

"Wings of Fire" (1998) received a nomination for the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Dilys Award and was shortlisted for first Ellis Peters Mystery Award in the United Kingdom. Again The New York Times selected it as a Notable Book of the Year.

"Search the Dark" (1999) was the winner of the 1999 Reviewers Choice Award from the Romantic Times Magazine.

"Legacy of the Dead" (2000) earned the Todd's a third The New York Times Notable book listing.

"A Cold Treachery" (2005) received a Publishers Weekly: Starred Review.

Publications

Featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge
*"A Matter of Justice" (2009)
*"A Pale Horse" (2008)
*"A False Mirror" (2007)
*"A Long Shadow" (2006)
*"A Cold Treachery" (2005)
*"A Fearsome Doubt" (2002)
*"Watchers of Time" (2001)
*"Legacy of the Dead" (2000)
*"Search the Dark"(1999)
*"Wings of Fire" (1998)
*"A Test of Wills" (1996)

Featuring Francesca Hatton
*"The Murder Stone" (2003)