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

North Carolina

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 and Delaware

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

 respectively.

The authors are best known for a series of thirteen novels, set in post World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 England

England

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. The 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

Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...

 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 Scot

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

s soldier he was forced to execute on the battlefield for refusing an order.

Charles Todd is working on a new series dealing with a nurse named Bess Crawford set in the early 1900s.

Recognition and Awards

A Test of Wills (1996) was nominated for the John Creasey Award in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

; other nominations are the Edgar Award

Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...

, an Anthony, and the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Dilys Award

Dilys Award

The Dilys Award have been presented every year since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It is given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses...

. 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

Dilys Award

The Dilys Award have been presented every year since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It is given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses...

 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 Test of Wills (1996) . ISBN 0061242845
• Wings of Fire (1998) . ISBN 0312965680
• Search the Dark(1999) . ISBN 0312971281
• Legacy of the Dead (2000) . ISBN 0553583158
• Watchers of Time (2001) . ISBN 0553583166
• A Fearsome Doubt (2002) . ISBN 0553583174
• A Cold Treachery (2005) . ISBN 0553586610
• A Long Shadow (2006) . ISBN 0060786736
• A False Mirror (2007) . ISBN 0060786736
• A Pale Horse (2008) . ISBN 0061233560
• A Matter of Justice (2009) . ISBN 0061233595
• The Red Door (2010) . ISBN 0061726168 . ISBN 9780061726163
• A Lonely Death (2011)
• The Confession (2012)

Featuring Francesca Hatton

• The Murder Stone (2003)

Featuring Bess Crawford

• A Duty to the Dead (2009)
• An Impartial Witness (2010)
• A Bitter Truth (2011)