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A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery
by Charles Todd

Published: 2009-08-25
Hardcover : 336 pages
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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 ...

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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 by a broken arm‚ Bess returns home to England‚ determined to fulfill her promise.

It?s not so easy‚ however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brother?s plea. Oddly‚ neither Jonathan‚ his mother‚ nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that there?s another brother‚ incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid.

Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldier?s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything‚ she decides that she will investigate. It?s her own duty to the dead.

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  "A Duty to the Dead"by Diane M. (see profile) 07/18/13

Enjoyable, fun to read, a good mystery, not the best I've read but good.

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