Bess Crawford Mysteries A Bitter Truth, Book 3, (Paperback)

from lit_chick

2011,Harper Audio, Read by Rosalyn Landor Publisher's Summary: adapted from Audible.com Bess Crawford returns from France for a well-earned Christmas leave to find a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway of her London residence. Bess takes the woman in and learns that she has had a v...

from AFHeart

Series: 3rd in The Bess Crawford Mysteries Main Character: Bess Crawford, English military nurse during war Setting: WWI, England and France This was my first Bess Crawford book and it stands alone fine. Bess is given holiday leave from her nursing duties and finds a women huddled at the door to ...

from ritaer

Nursing Sister Bess Crawford comes home on Christmas leave to find a strange woman shivering on her doorstep. She discovers that the woman has impulsively fled her home is Sussex after being struck by her husband. Worried about the woman's syptoms, which suggest a concussion, Bess accompanies her...

from Travis1259

I really wanted to like this book. It had so much going for it: a Gothic English country house, a World War I nurse as the central character, an eccentric English family, several murders, and some good dialogue. Alas, the novel did not come together. The varied and well pictured setting and atmos...

from readafew

A Bitter Truth is the 3rd in the Bess Crawford Mystery series. I met Bess briefly in A Lonely Death several years after this book takes place, the main character in that one is a police inspector Ian Rutledge. Both series take place primarily in England during or after WWI. Bess is a battlefield ...