The confession

ISBN: 0062194321 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 0062015664 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780062194329 (International ed.)
ISBN: 9780062015662 (hc.)
Physical Description: 344 p. ; 24 cm. print
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, c2012.

Summary: Declaring he needs to clear his conscience, a dying man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin five years earlier during the Great War. When Inspector Ian Rutledge presses for details, the man evades his questions, revealing only that he hails from a village east of London. With little information and no body to open an official inquiry, Rutledge begins to look into the case on his own. Less than two weeks later, the alleged killers body is found floating in the Thames, a bullet in the back of his head. Searching for answers, Rutledge discovers that the dead man was not who he claimed to be. What was his real nameand who put a bullet in his head? Were the “confession” and his own death related? Or was there something else in the victims past that led to his murder?