Bess Crawford Mysteries A Duty to the Dead, Book 1, (Paperback)

from wdlaurie

The first in a new series from Charles Todd, and a nice adjunct to Pat Barker's Regeneration series. It's fascinating that, nearly 100 years later, we're starting to truly understand the horrors of WW1, and it's effects on the victims and survivors of the battlefields, and their friends and famil...

from tututhefirst

The first of a new series for me. If you're a Maisie Dobbs fan, you'll love these featuring WWI nurse Bess Crawford. This one gives us Bess nursing wounded soldiers on the converted ocean liner Britannica when it is torpedoed by the Germans. She makes a promise to a dying soldier to carry a messa...

from Lauren2013

A Duty to the Dead4 StarsOn leave after being injured during the sinking of the hospital ship Britannic, nurse Bess Crawford takes the opportunity to fulfill the dying wish of a young soldier under her care. Traveling to Kent, she encounters the Graham family and their many secrets including the ...

from irisrose

This was the first Charles Dodd mystery I have read. As a nurse practitioner I was intrigued around nursing in WWI. I found it believable and very interesting. I liked the story occassionally it lagged a bit but over all I enjoy it very much. I have started the second in the series and liked seei...

from smik

This is the first of Todd's Bess Crawford novels, and I found it very readable. While the well-established, still continuing, Ian Rutledge series is set after World War One, the Bess Crawford novels are set in the war itself. A second novel in the series, IMPARTIAL WITNESS, was published in 2010....