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Tending to the soldiers in the trenches of France during the First World War, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is sent back to England in the early summer of 1917 with a convoy of severely burned men. One of her patients, a young pilot, has clung to a photograph of his wife since his plane went down, and Bess can't help but notice the photo every time she tends to him. After the patients are transferred to a clinic in Hampshire, Bess is ready for her two-day leave, planning to return to her flat in London to catch up on some much-needed rest. But at the railway station, in a mob of troops leaving for the front, Bess catches a glimpse of a familiar face. Could that be the pilot's wife? And why is she bidding a very emotional farewell to a soldier who is not her husband? Back in France, Bess discovers an old newspaper with a drawing of the woman's face on the front page. Accompanying the drawing is a plea from Scotland Yard looking for information from anyone who has seen her. The woman was murdered - the very day Bess saw her...
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Charles Todd is the author of 12 Ian Rutledge mysteries, two Bess Crawford mysteries, and one stand-alone novel. A mother and son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great second novel in new series...,
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This review is from: An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Paperback)
Charles Todd is back with the second book in the "Bess Crawford" series. And as with all their writing - "Charles Todd" is actually a mother-son writing team - the book is excellently plotted with very nuanced characters who take the reader back to the dark days of WW1 Britain. Their first series is the Ian Rutledge post WW1 books.Bess Crawford is the only child of an English colonel and his wife who spent many years in Imperial India. At the beginning of the Great War, Bess wants to serve her country and joins the army as a nursing sister. Serving near the Front, Bess experiences the natural detritus of war - the massive number of casualties who flood her nursing station. Returning to England during a leave - and after escorting wounded soldiers home from the Front - Bess is involved in a obliquely involved in a murder of the wife of one of her wounded patients. She tries to solve the murder as a gesture of respect to the soldier, who committed suicide after his wife's murder. The character Bess Crawford might be compared to Masie Dobbs, the former British nurse turned Private Investigator in post-war Britain. Both characters are beautifully drawn and are fully-realised personalities. Crawford's period is the last days of WW1 whereas Dobb's is post-war and into the 1930's. Both are excellent series-books. I'm looking forward to more Bess Crawford books. Todd is a great storyteller.
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