Bess Crawford mysteries

Author:
Todd, Charles
 
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Book cover for "A duty to the dead".
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Mother's sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and she's sidelined...
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Nurse Bess Crawford finds herself involved in the search for a devious and dangerous killer in 1917 London after a woman she recognized from a wounded soldier's photograph is found murdered.
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered...
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to clear her father's name, instead makes a horrific discovery that changes everything.
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning Bess goes to collect Wilkins but finds he has vanished. Both the...
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Searching for a witness who may have evidence proving that a deadly explosion was not an accident, Bess Crawford journeys to the frontlines of war-torn France and risks her life to protect the witness from a dangerous assailant.
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Treating an injured soldier from a tenuous border region between France and Germany, World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford questions the man's true loyalties and risks her life to solve his subsequent disappearance.
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"At the end of the Great War, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland"-- "At the end of the Great War, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland"--Dust jacket.
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer"--
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"The Great War is over, but in Ireland, in the wake of the bloody 1916 Easter Rising, anyone who served in France is now considered a traitor, including nurse Eileen Flynn and former soldier Michael Sullivan, who only want to be married in the small, isolated village where she grew up. Even her grandmother is against it, and Eileen's only protection is her cousin Terrence who was a hero of the Rising and is still being hunted by the British. Bess...
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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"Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn...
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Average Rating:
4 stars