A Duty To The Dead
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Bess Crawford series #1.
“Sometimes you see briefly into someone’s heart, and it becomes a bond between you that goes beyond friendship.”
England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford’s upbringing was far different from that of the usual upper-middle class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer father. At the outbreak of World War I, Bess volunteered for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Brittanic.
One one voyage, Bess grows fond of the young, gravely wounded Lieutenant Arthor Graham. Something rests heavily on his conscience, and to give him peace as he dies, she promises to deliver a message to his brother. It is some months before she can carry out this duty, and when she is next in England, she herself is recovering from a wound.
When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother’s last wishes with surprising indifference. Neither his mother nor his brother Timothy seems to to think it has any significance, either. Unsettled by this, Bess is about to take her leave when sudden tragedy envelops her. She quickly discovers that fulfilling this duty to the dead has thrust her into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder that will endanger her own life and test her courage as not even war has.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Bess Crawford series #1.
“Sometimes you see briefly into someone’s heart, and it becomes a bond between you that goes beyond friendship.”
England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford’s upbringing was far different from that of the usual upper-middle class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer father. At the outbreak of World War I, Bess volunteered for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Brittanic.
One one voyage, Bess grows fond of the young, gravely wounded Lieutenant Arthor Graham. Something rests heavily on his conscience, and to give him peace as he dies, she promises to deliver a message to his brother. It is some months before she can carry out this duty, and when she is next in England, she herself is recovering from a wound.
When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother’s last wishes with surprising indifference. Neither his mother nor his brother Timothy seems to to think it has any significance, either. Unsettled by this, Bess is about to take her leave when sudden tragedy envelops her. She quickly discovers that fulfilling this duty to the dead has thrust her into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder that will endanger her own life and test her courage as not even war has.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Bess Crawford series #1.
“Sometimes you see briefly into someone’s heart, and it becomes a bond between you that goes beyond friendship.”
England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford’s upbringing was far different from that of the usual upper-middle class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer father. At the outbreak of World War I, Bess volunteered for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Brittanic.
One one voyage, Bess grows fond of the young, gravely wounded Lieutenant Arthor Graham. Something rests heavily on his conscience, and to give him peace as he dies, she promises to deliver a message to his brother. It is some months before she can carry out this duty, and when she is next in England, she herself is recovering from a wound.
When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother’s last wishes with surprising indifference. Neither his mother nor his brother Timothy seems to to think it has any significance, either. Unsettled by this, Bess is about to take her leave when sudden tragedy envelops her. She quickly discovers that fulfilling this duty to the dead has thrust her into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder that will endanger her own life and test her courage as not even war has.
ISBN 978-0-06-179177-2
Charles Todd
2009