Caroline Todd, pseudonymous author of mystery novels with her son under the name Charles Todd, died on August 28. She was 86. Todd’s books take place in English villages after World War I. The mother-son team submitted their first book, A TEST OF WILLS, to Ruth Cavin at St. Martin’s Press in 1996. She agreed to publish it, and it sold out its first print run. “Everyone respected that their books weren’t fluff, that they were about real history, about real people in a real time,” mystery writer Rhys Bowen told the NYT. “They were one of the better mystery […]
