Bess Crawford Mysteries A Pattern of Lies, (Paperback)

from lit_chick

Publisher's Summary: adapted from Audible.com An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It's called an appalling tragedy – until suspicion and rumour raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caught u...

from pennsylady

Charles Todd (Author), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator), HarperAudio In 1916, at the height of the war, an explosion and fire at Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent killed more than one hundred men. Army investigation of the tragedy attributed it, most probably, to German subversive activity. In 1918, a web o...

from TGPistole

I have read other books by Charles Todd but this was the first featuring Sister Beth Crawford. It was a intriguing story. Set toward the end of WWI, Sister Crawford navigates back and forth across the English Channel, from medical units near the front to a small town in Kent. While the latter is ...

from jamespurcell

A visit to a former patient from France turns dark and ominous with noisome objects thrown and an attempted firebombing. Why, have the locals turned against the powder factory owner and his family, two plus years after the horrific explosion and fire. The mill owner, the patient's father is arres...

from FictionZeal

Bess Crawford is a World War I battlefield nurse serving in France. In this, the seventh in the series, she is visiting the Ashton family in Kent, an English village, while her train has been delayed. She gets caught up in investigating a two-year-old fatal explosion at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill,...