Charles Todd
@charlestodauthor.bsky.social
Author of the Ian Rutledge Series, Bess Crawford Series and many more.
In #uk , #boxingday is the day after Christmas the servants of wealthy aristocrat families were treated as part of the bonus, and food leftovers on the next day after Christmas Day. In Victorian England, role reversal was undertaken. #UK #IanRutledge #BessCrawford
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December 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In #uk , #boxingday is the day after Christmas the servants of wealthy aristocrat families were treated as part of the bonus, and food leftovers on the next day after Christmas Day. In Victorian England, role reversal was undertaken. #UK #IanRutledge #BessCrawford
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The Wall Street Journal review of A Christmas Witness! “Mr. Todd’s narrative begins as a police-procedural but subtly transforms into a tale of personal redemption and a poignant Christmas story.” A great stocking stuffer! #WSJ #ACHRISTMASWITNESS
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Mysteries: ‘The Queens of Crime’ by Marie Benedict
Plus “A Christmas Witness” and “The Last Death of the Year.”
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December 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal review of A Christmas Witness! “Mr. Todd’s narrative begins as a police-procedural but subtly transforms into a tale of personal redemption and a poignant Christmas story.” A great stocking stuffer! #WSJ #ACHRISTMASWITNESS
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Hanukkah Sameach our dear friends of the Jewish faith! Our prayers are with those in Australia, #Hannukkah2025 #hanuman #sindhiswag #lordganesha #shalom #happyhanukkah #judaism #hindus #ganpatibappa #omnamahshivaya #hindustani #hinduswaraj #hindvad
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December 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hanukkah Sameach our dear friends of the Jewish faith! Our prayers are with those in Australia, #Hannukkah2025 #hanuman #sindhiswag #lordganesha #shalom #happyhanukkah #judaism #hindus #ganpatibappa #omnamahshivaya #hindustani #hinduswaraj #hindvad
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Happy Birthday Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. #marktwain #bookworm #booknerd
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November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy Birthday Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. #marktwain #bookworm #booknerd
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Latha Sona Naomh Anndra! Happy #saintandrewsday The day honors St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, and is marked with festivities. The day is also linked to the origin of the Scottish flag, the Saltire, which features St. Andrew's cross.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Latha Sona Naomh Anndra! Happy #saintandrewsday The day honors St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, and is marked with festivities. The day is also linked to the origin of the Scottish flag, the Saltire, which features St. Andrew's cross.
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Today in #WWI Battle of Cambrai: November 20 to December 5, 1917. The Battle of Cambrai, is most notably remembered as the first large-scale use of tanks in combat near the French city of Cambrai.Casualties: Allied: 75,681, Germany: 54,720.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Today in #WWI Battle of Cambrai: November 20 to December 5, 1917. The Battle of Cambrai, is most notably remembered as the first large-scale use of tanks in combat near the French city of Cambrai.Casualties: Allied: 75,681, Germany: 54,720.
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This Month’s Best New Historical Mysteries
Check out this month’s biggest and buzziest historical mysteries! A festive mystery from a NYT bestseller: Why It’s Readworthy: Christmastime in 1921, Ian Rutledge newly appointed chief inspector travels to Kent to investigate a lord’s attempted murder.
Check out this month’s biggest and buzziest historical mysteries! A festive mystery from a NYT bestseller: Why It’s Readworthy: Christmastime in 1921, Ian Rutledge newly appointed chief inspector travels to Kent to investigate a lord’s attempted murder.
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This Month’s Best New Historical Mysteries
Check out this month’s biggest and buzziest historical mysteries! A festive mystery from a NYT bestseller: Why It’s Readworthy: Christmastime in 1921, Ian Rutledge newly appointed chief inspector travels to Kent to investigate a lord’s attempted murder.
Check out this month’s biggest and buzziest historical mysteries! A festive mystery from a NYT bestseller: Why It’s Readworthy: Christmastime in 1921, Ian Rutledge newly appointed chief inspector travels to Kent to investigate a lord’s attempted murder.
Happy Birthday Robert Lewis Stevenson! Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. Caroline Todd shared his borthday. #UK #Scotland #Fiction
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November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Happy Birthday Robert Lewis Stevenson! Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. Caroline Todd shared his borthday. #UK #Scotland #Fiction
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Lest We Forget! November 11th is #ArmisticeDay in many countries and #VeteransDay in the USA. This day recognizes all those who gave their lives in #WWI and beyond to keep us safe and free.. #Veterans #WWI #Military #History #NeverForget
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November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lest We Forget! November 11th is #ArmisticeDay in many countries and #VeteransDay in the USA. This day recognizes all those who gave their lives in #WWI and beyond to keep us safe and free.. #Veterans #WWI #Military #History #NeverForget
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For the Fallen
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
by Laurence Binyon.
#rememberanceday #uk
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
by Laurence Binyon.
#rememberanceday #uk
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November 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
For the Fallen
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
by Laurence Binyon.
#rememberanceday #uk
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
by Laurence Binyon.
#rememberanceday #uk
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Chirp Mega Series Sale!
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Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
by Charles Todd
Somehow, the past keeps catching up with Inspector Ian Rutledge in this "superb" historical mystery series (Lee Child) that "combines crisp plotting with stylish prose" (Booklist).
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Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
by Charles Todd
Somehow, the past keeps catching up with Inspector Ian Rutledge in this "superb" historical mystery series (Lee Child) that "combines crisp plotting with stylish prose" (Booklist).
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
by Charles Todd
Somehow, the past keeps catching up with Inspector Ian Rutledge in this "superb" historical mystery series (Lee Child) that "combines crisp plotting with stylish prose" (Booklist).
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Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
by Charles Todd
Somehow, the past keeps catching up with Inspector Ian Rutledge in this "superb" historical mystery series (Lee Child) that "combines crisp plotting with stylish prose" (Booklist).
Today is Guy Fawks (the 5th of November) day to celebrate the plot to blow up Westminster Palace iand King James I in 1605. Celebrated with bonfires, fireworks and burnt effigies of popular hate-figure from the plot. #Guy Fawks #GuyFawksNight #UK
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November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today is Guy Fawks (the 5th of November) day to celebrate the plot to blow up Westminster Palace iand King James I in 1605. Celebrated with bonfires, fireworks and burnt effigies of popular hate-figure from the plot. #Guy Fawks #GuyFawksNight #UK
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Recently many fans have asked about the Audio Version of A Christmas Witness. It is now available for sale at many retail outlets in addition to Amazon. #IanRutledge #AChristmasWitness #CharlesTodd
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November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Recently many fans have asked about the Audio Version of A Christmas Witness. It is now available for sale at many retail outlets in addition to Amazon. #IanRutledge #AChristmasWitness #CharlesTodd
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Today in WWI: The Battle of Caporetto from October 24, to November 19, 1917: A terrible loss for Italy. 70,000 casualties and 265,000–275,000 captured. #WWI #Italy #UK
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October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today in WWI: The Battle of Caporetto from October 24, to November 19, 1917: A terrible loss for Italy. 70,000 casualties and 265,000–275,000 captured. #WWI #Italy #UK
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#1 On Amazon under hard boiled mysteries!
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#1 On Amazon under hard boiled mysteries!
Today is Release Day for A Christmas Witness! At long last the wait is over!
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Joël Dicker, Wild Animal Translated by Robert Bononno (HarperVia) “Swiss novelist Dicker delivers a rollicking heist …
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October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today is Release Day for A Christmas Witness! At long last the wait is over!
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On October 20, 1920 Agatha Christie published The Mysterious Affair at Styles and one can say her debut novel helped reshape the genre. #agathacristie #mystery #herculeproiot
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October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
On October 20, 1920 Agatha Christie published The Mysterious Affair at Styles and one can say her debut novel helped reshape the genre. #agathacristie #mystery #herculeproiot
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Remember The Importance of Being Earnest because it is Oscar Wilde’s Birthday 16 October 1854! “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” #oscarwilde #poet #humorist #playwrghit
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Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia
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October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Remember The Importance of Being Earnest because it is Oscar Wilde’s Birthday 16 October 1854! “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” #oscarwilde #poet #humorist #playwrghit
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Happy Birthday P. G. Wodehouse! Born on October 15, 1881, He was an English writer and humorists. His creations include the Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves; Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; #Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse - Wikipedia
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October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy Birthday P. G. Wodehouse! Born on October 15, 1881, He was an English writer and humorists. His creations include the Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves; Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; #Jeeves
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National Black Dog Day is celebrated annually on October 1st to encourage the adoption of dark-colored dogs from shelters and to combat Black Dog Syndrome. It also refers to Winston Churchill’s bad times. #blackdog
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October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
National Black Dog Day is celebrated annually on October 1st to encourage the adoption of dark-colored dogs from shelters and to combat Black Dog Syndrome. It also refers to Winston Churchill’s bad times. #blackdog
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Yom Kippur Greetings to our Jewish friends! Have an easy and meaningful fast.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yom Kippur Greetings to our Jewish friends! Have an easy and meaningful fast.
#yomkippur
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#yomkippur
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Happy Birthday Norman Colin Dexter OBE! (29 September 1930) was acrime writer known for his Inspector Morse series between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Morse, from 1987 to 2000. #inspectormorse #dexter
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Colin Dexter - Wikipedia
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September 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Happy Birthday Norman Colin Dexter OBE! (29 September 1930) was acrime writer known for his Inspector Morse series between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Morse, from 1987 to 2000. #inspectormorse #dexter
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Happy Birthday T. S. Eliot! Born this day in 1888, The 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Highly distinguished as a poet, a literary critic, a dramatist, an editor, and a publisher. He was fond Wordsworth! Worth reading more! #tseliot #author #poet
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September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy Birthday T. S. Eliot! Born this day in 1888, The 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Highly distinguished as a poet, a literary critic, a dramatist, an editor, and a publisher. He was fond Wordsworth! Worth reading more! #tseliot #author #poet
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Today in WWI! On September 26, 1918 The Meuse–Argonne offensivethe Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign) was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I. Casualties: Allies 192,000, Imperial German 128.000
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Meuse–Argonne offensive - Wikipedia
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September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today in WWI! On September 26, 1918 The Meuse–Argonne offensivethe Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign) was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I. Casualties: Allies 192,000, Imperial German 128.000
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Today in WWI: The Battle of Loos took place from 25 September to 8 October 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War. It was the biggest British attack of 1915, the first time that the British used poison gas. #Kitchner #WWI #UK
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September 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Today in WWI: The Battle of Loos took place from 25 September to 8 October 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War. It was the biggest British attack of 1915, the first time that the British used poison gas. #Kitchner #WWI #UK
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