A Pale Horse

A PALE HORSE; Charles Todd; New York: Morrow, 2008. Mystery

Inspector Ian Rutledge, the haunted and war-weary veteran of World War I, is back in this story of a missing government chemist, and a murderous spree in an isolated housing development below the enormous white horse carved out of the chalk cliffs of Berkshire. Resentful local police, suspicious residents, angry children, and multiple red herrings complicate the Inspector's hunt for the missing man and a spree killer who may or may not have a connection to the enigmatic Gaylor Partridge. Not written for fans of breakneck pacing, A Pale Horse is a complicated puzzle, and a complex consideration of wide and endless swath of destruction that warring nations visit on their peoples. Echoes of the book of Revelation's
"pale horse, pale rider" fill the landscape as well as the hearts and minds of the hapless victims of the Great War.

LW