David Watjen News Today

Discover the best Charles Todd books in order as we cover all 40 titles of murder mystery books featuring detective Ian Rutledge and nurse Bess Crawford.

And also: In a Pearl Harbor Day commemoration, author Walter Borneman will give a talk about his book "Brothers Down." His talk Dec. 7 is sponsored by the MacArthur Memorial and the Hampton Roads Naval Museum.

Caroline Todd was the pen name of Carolyn Watjen; Charles Todd is actually David Watjen. “Everyone respected that their books weren’t fluff, that they were about real history, about real people in a real time,” said Rhys Bowen, a mystery novelist. “They were one of the better mystery writers.”

Writing under the pen name Charles Todd, she and her son published nearly 40 mystery novels, all of them set in rural England just after World War I.