Charles Todd_Ian Rutledge 07 by A Cold Treachery

Author:A Cold Treachery
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Rutledge, Police, Historical fiction, Northern, Mystery & Detective, Police - England, Ian (Fictitious character), Fiction, England, Mass murder investigation, Mystery fiction, Historical, Child witnesses, Traditional British, General, Missing children
ISBN: 9780553803495
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2005-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

Rutledge walked outside, going through the barn with some care, looking for trapdoors, looking for some sign that someone had taken refuge here after the searchers had departed. But there was nothing. No makeshift beds, no sacks pulled into a dry corner, no cache of tins or biscuits or anything else a boy might live on. The same was true in the outbuildings. But then the police had already done this search earlier.

He walked out into the yard again and scanned the slopes of the fell, searching for—what?

Hamish said, “An observation post . . .”

To begin with, perhaps. But nearly a week had passed since the murders. Without food, with only cold snow for water, and with little protection during the cold nights, how could a child have survived?

But then this might have been a child with murder on his soul . . . and surviving was the reason for killing.

It would depend, Hamish was reminding him, on how far ahead the boy had planned.

Or, Rutledge found himself thinking, on how Josh Robinson had felt about the bloody shambles he'd fled. He could have carried out the murders and then, overwhelmed by the horror of what he'd done, he might have run too far and lost himself in the unfamiliar night, the unfamiliar snow. And never had the strength to find his way back.

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