A World War I nurse, Bess Crawford, must decide if a man framed for murder is innocent or guilty. While caring for young pilot patients, Bess becomes embroiled in a Scotland Yard investigation after encountering a murdered woman that she recognizes from a photo. With her own life at stake, she must decide whether to expose the truth, even if it means an innocent man will be hanged.

A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries)

An Impartial Witness

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.

An Impartial Witness

A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries)

Charles Todd