William Morrow
September 2010
On Sale: August 31, 2010
Featuring: Bess Crawford
352 pages ISBN: 0061791784 EAN: 9780061791789 Hardcover Add to Wish List
World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in A Duty to
the Dead, returns in an exciting new mystery in which a
murder draws her inexorably into the sights of a cunning
killer
It is the early summer of 1917. Bess Crawford has returned
to England from the trenches of France with a convoy of
severely wounded men. One of her patients is a young pilot
who has been burned beyond recognition, and who clings to
life and the photo of his wife that is pinned to his
tunic.
While passing through a London train station, Bess notices
a woman bidding an emotional farewell to an officer, her
grief heart-wrenching. And then Bess realizes that she
seems familiar. In fact, she's the woman in the pilot's
photo, but the man she is seeing off is not her husband.
Back on duty in France, Bess discovers a newspaper with a
drawing of the woman's face on the front page.
Accompanying the drawing is a plea from Scotland Yard
seeking information from anyone who has seen her. For it
appears that the woman was murdered on the very day Bess
encountered her at the station.
Granted leave to speak with Scotland Yard, Bess becomes
entangled in the case. Though an arrest is made, she must
delve into the depths of her very soul to decide if the
police will hang an innocent man or a vicious killer.
Exposing the truth is dangerous—and will put her own life
on the line.
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