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A Duty to the Dead and An Impartial Witness
Charles Todd
Hardcover, 329 pages; 2009
Paperback, 352 pages; 2010 (2009)
Hardcover, 352 pages; 2010
 Members' Price (UD4572): $21.24
A Duty to the Dead, the immediately gripping first book in a series from Charles Todd ("Charles Todd" is actually a mother/son team of authors!), has the classic feel of an old English mystery. It's set during World War I in England, and the heroine, Bess Crawford, is an independent, curious, and devoted nurse working for the military. When a dying soldier asks her to deliver a message to his brother, Crawford promises to do so. She travels to the village where the soldier's family lives, hoping to learn the significance of the enigmatic message she carries--but the family is not interested in sharing any secrets. The local doctor, however, desperately needs a nurse's help, and while Crawford lends a hand, she becomes increasingly embroiled in village history. She discovers that one of the dead soldier's brothers has been in a mental institution for more than a decade, accused of committing a heinous murder as a young boy…and soon Crawford finds herself heatedly engaged in this "cold case." A Duty to the Dead unfolds slowly, with carefully considered details that powerfully pull you into the scene--but the pages turn quickly, from the very beginning to the satisfying conclusion! And now we're offering the equally thrilling second book in the Bess Crawford series, An Impartial Witness, in which the battlefield nurse investigates the murder of the wife of one of her patients.
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