A LONELY DEATH by Charles Todd (fic/mys)

Who doesn't like a good British mystery for a lazy summer's read?  This one takes place in the small English town (of course) in Sussex near Hastings and Battle. This is an area I know quite well having relatives there.  Apparently the Charles Todd, the nom de plume of a mother/son writing team, knows the area also.  Charles and Caroline Todd have written an excellent series of mystery books which take place just after WWI.  I have read one other of their books, also as well-written as this.  The Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge returns from a horrific French battlefield experience, shell-shocked, a former name for what we now call PTS.  He is healing from a depression caused by his war experiences, and is asked to take on a case in the town of Eastfield.  It seems that a number of returned veterans of the Great War have been mysteriously murdered, each garroted.  Pieces of Rutledge's own experiences are revealed as he tries to track the murderer down before another takes place.  If you enjoy a good mystery story, I recommend that your try some of this series.  "A Lonely Death" will make you forget that t.v. program you mean to watch.