Book Overview
In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, and begins a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie? In 1908, when a young Bess Crawford lived in India, an unforgettable incident darkened the otherwise happy time. Her father's regiment discovered it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people yet was never brought to trial. A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying man that the alleged murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive and serving at the Front. According to reliable reports, he'd died years before, so how did Wade escape India? What drove a good man to murder in cold blood? Bess uses her leave to investigate. But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, she is shaken to her very core. The facts reveal a reality that could have been her own fate.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0062237152
ISBN13:9780062237156
Release Date:August 2013
Publisher:William Morrow & Company
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.06 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
The best Bess Crawford mystery
Published by bernie4444 , 4 months ago
This is the fifth in the series. So, by now, you should be acquainted with the characters written by this unique mother and son team.
We are now in the last year of the war, and everyone is speculating what Bess will do now that she is no longer going to be a nurse.
She is working in an aid station where they receive the wounded men. There, she finds that her history in India allows her to converse with a wounded Indian Sergeant. There, he finds that he has seen Lieutenant Wade, a person of interest from her father’s regiment. The story can get a tad complex to convey in this review. However, this person had a nefarious background and was wanted for various deeds. She wants to track him down and find the truth.
I have to admit that my first read from Charles Todd was the Ian Rutledge Mysteries. Guess I’ll have to try “The Murder Stone”.
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