In "A Pattern of Lies," a horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill leads Bess Crawford to France where she tries to uncover the truth amid rumors of murder. Caught up in a venomous show of hostility and under siege, Bess must find the only known witness - who refuses to help. Risking her own life, Bess must protect the witness from a clever killer to uncover the truth and prevent more deaths.

A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries Book 7)

A Pattern of Lies

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.

A Pattern of Lies

A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries Book 7)

Charles Todd