by Charles Todd
This is the first book in the new series by Charles Todd about Bess Crawford, a young nurse during the first world war. In this book Bess is asked by a dying soldier to deliver a message, in person, to his brother. It is a strange message about the young man having lied and about having his brother set things right.
Bess is recovering from injuries she sustained when the medical ship she was on was sunk. She goes to visit the man's family and is surprised that the family doesn't seem interested in acting on the message. She nurses a man who is suffering from shell shock and who later kills himself, or is he murdered. She is shocked to find out that one of the brothers in the family is in an asylum as a result of a brutal murder he committed. When he too is brought to her for nursing care, when he has pneumonia and the asylum can't cope with nursing him, she starts to suspect that things may not be as she has been informed.
She starts to try to find out what really happened many years ago and to clear the name of the oldest brother.
She does indeed solve the crime but the result is that three of the four brothers are dead by the end of the book. I think I enjoyed this book better than the second one in the series, which I read first, a few months ago.
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