A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A ...
While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a compassionate nurse who responds with feeling.”— The New York Times Book Review In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and ...
In this, the eleventh novel in the award-winning Bess Crawford series, New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd delivers a rich and atmospheric portrait that illuminates the cost of war on human lives—the lingering pain and horror ...
It had confused Hannah , divided her loyalties between the safety of the past and the needs of the present . It had faced Joseph with horror that stretched his faith beyond its limits , it had taken away all the old answers and left him ...
FRANCE Early Autumn, 1918 LIEUTENANT MORRISON DIED as dawn broke on that Friday morning, a casualty of war. I wrote the date and the time in his record. I had sat with him for the last hours of his life—and stayed with him still for ...
A ruined abbey on a beautiful estate in Derbyshire, a murdered peer, and a most unlikely romance make New York Times bestseller Tasha Alexander's new novel Behind the Shattered Glass absolutely irresistible Anglemore Park is the ancestral ...
“I had no reason to think I was in any danger. Nothing's happened to suggest our garden is unsafe. And you know how Sebastian likes to follow me. It was completely innocuous.” “This time, maybe. But how do we know someone else isn't ...
First came a small boy's cuff buttons , heavy gold and again with initials engraved on them . RHC . Richard Cheney ? Behind them was a lovely little signet ring , that looked as if it had been crafted for a child .
The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it!
She does her best to help them, but it’s clear that they have nothing to go home to, in a valley where only the fit can work in the coal pits. When they are released, she fears that peace will do what war couldn’t—take their lives.