A WWI nurse and amateur sleuth, Bess Crawford, investigates an old murder from her childhood in India, uncovering chilling truths about a crime that was never brought to trial. Charles Todd's latest mystery novel will leave readers questioning the reliability of facts and pondering their own fates.

A Question of Honor

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.