A review by judyward
The Red Door by Charles Todd

4.0

I can't believe that this is the 12th book in the Ian Rutledge series. The plot in this book is as good as the one in the first book in the series. It's July of 1920 and Rutledge is called in to investigate the disappearance of Walter Teller from a hospital in London. It seems strange to Rutledge that the Teller family leaves his wife in London alone while they fan out to check sites all over southern England where Walter may have gone. What's going on here? Does this family have a secret? Well, what self-respecting family doesn't? Walter comes back on his own, but refuses to reveal where he had been and what he had been doing for the four days that he was missing. Then there is a murder in a distant village of a woman who had been married to a Peter Teller who never came back from World War I. Hmm, Walter Teller has a brother named Peter Teller. Is the family involved in some way? There are lots of red herrings--all of which I fell for--and I thought that I had the mystery figured out about seven times before the ending which surprised me. A well-written book about the interwar era in which I am so interested. One note: I think that it helps to read the books in order in this series because of the mental breakdown that Ian Rutledge suffers as a result of his actions in World War I and his attempts to work his way back to normality.