A review by vkemp
The Confession by Charles Todd

4.0

A man walks into Ian Rutledge's office in Scotland Yard and confesses to the murder of Justin Fowler. Except no one seems to know if Fowler is really dead or not. Several days later, that same man is found in the Thames with a bullet in the back of his head. Except he was dying of cancer, so why would someone shoot him? As Rutledge investigates, he discovers Wyatt Russell, the man he claims to be, was, indeed, not Wyatt Russell, who survived the Great War and now lives in a convalescent home due to traumatic brain injury. This investigation leads Rutledge deep into the Essex countryside where secrets are rampant and bodies can disappear into the marshes with no difficulty at all. More bodies appear; some died before the war and some within recent memory. Who is killing the residents of River's Edge manor, located in lonely Furnham? I do not know how I missed this 14th book in the long-running series, but, as always, it is a good puzzle with expert plotting. I did not see the villain until too late.