A Bitter Truth immerses readers in the tumultuous world of World War One as battlefield nurse Bess Crawford tries to help a young woman who is being abused. Her good intentions backfire when she is unjustly accused of murder. Charles Todd's gripping third installment in the Bess Crawford series is a must-read for fans of historical mysteries.

A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries)

A Bitter Truth

Brought up in India, where she was taught values of duty, honor and integrity by her officer father, Bess Crawford has signed up for service as a British nurse, in France. She tends diligently to the many wounded of the first world war. Her interest, however, is always piqued by a mystery, and she feels compelled to find all the answers, leading to this character’s secondary vocation as an amateur sleuth. Doing the right thing is important to Bess Crawford, and she always strives to follow the moral code bequeathed to her by her upstanding soldier Father a colonel Major in the British Army. This sense of duty and morality has drawn her into some tricky and even dangerous situations.