It seems that like me, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine editor George Easter has been wondering what would become of “Charles Todd” (aka David Watjen), half of the mother-son writing partnership that created historical mystery series around both Inspector Ian Rutledge and nurse Bess Crawford. His mother, Caroline Watjen (aka Caroline Todd), passed away in 2021, and there have not been any new entries in either line since 2023.
However, Easter reports Charles Todd contacted him recently with news that “Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford live on. I signed a four-book contract with Mysterious Press. A Christmas Witness, a Rutledge Christmas novella, will be released October 21, 2025, and A Day of Judgment [the 25th Rutledge novel] will be released on February 17th of 2026. I am hard at work on the [manuscript] for the new Bess Crawford that will be released next.”
So, good news at last.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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