An army nurse, Bess Crawford, faces a career-ending scandal when a soldier in her care murders someone while on leave. She must solve the mystery and apprehend the soldier to clear her own name, even if it could cost her her life. A gripping historical mystery from bestselling author Charles Todd.

A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries Book 6)

An Unwilling Accomplice

Brought up in India, where she was taught values of duty, honor and integrity by her officer father, Bess Crawford has signed up for service as a British nurse, in France. She tends diligently to the many wounded of the first world war. Her interest, however, is always piqued by a mystery, and she feels compelled to find all the answers, leading to this character’s secondary vocation as an amateur sleuth. Doing the right thing is important to Bess Crawford, and she always strives to follow the moral code bequeathed to her by her upstanding soldier Father a colonel Major in the British Army. This sense of duty and morality has drawn her into some tricky and even dangerous situations.