A review by vkemp
The Red Door by Charles Todd

4.0

A lonely woman waits for her husband's return from WWI and paints her door red. Two years later, a man disappears from a London psychiatric hospital. Ian Rutledge is called into the case because the Teller family is quite well-connected and Chief Superintendent Bowles tells Rutledge to find Walter Teller quickly. Rutledge and his doppelganger, Hamish, travel between London, Essex and Lancashire as both cases come together in a most unusual manner. How is the Teller family related to a dead woman and boy in Lancashire who live in a house with a faded red door? Rutledge also has to deal with his feelings for Meredith Channing, who is injured in a train wreck that also involves his godfather and honorary nephew. How can he love Meredith when Hamish renders him unfit for most polite society? I will be anxiously awaiting the continuation of this series.