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Stap in het leven van Bess Crawford, een moedige Britse legerverpleegster tijdens de turbulente jaren van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Deze serie volgt haar ervaringen te midden van de brute oorlogswerkelijkheid, waar moed en medeleven verweven zijn. Ontdek verhalen over veerkracht, opoffering en menselijkheid in het aangezicht van de donkerste momenten uit de geschiedenis. Het is een portret van een vrouw die in de moeilijkste tijden de kracht vindt om anderen te helpen.

A Cruel Deception
A Casualty of War
A Duty to the Dead
An Impartial Witness. A Bess Crawford Mystery
The Walnut Tree
A Hanging at Dawn

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    A Duty to the Dead

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,9(317)Tarief

    Dedicated to helping the many wounded during the Great War, Bess Crawford receives a desperate request from a dying lieutenant while serving as a nurse aboard a hospital ship. "Tell my brother Jonathan that I lied," the young man says. "I did it for Mother's sake. But it has to be set right." Back home in England, Bess receives an unexpected response from the dead soldier's family, for neither Jonathan Graham‚ his mother‚ nor his younger brother admit to understanding what the message means. But the Grahams are harboring a grim secret, and Bess must, somehow, get to the bottom of it. It is her sacred duty to the dead, no matter how painful, or dangerous, that obligation might be.

    A Duty to the Dead
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    An Impartial Witness. A Bess Crawford Mystery

    • 368bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen
    4,0(1)Tarief

    In the early summer of 1917, Bess Crawford is charged with escorting a convoy of severely wounded soldiers from the trenches of France to England. Among them is a young pilot, burned beyond recognition, who carries a photograph of his wife pinned to his tunic. But later, in a crowded railway station, Bess sees the same woman bidding a heart-wrenching farewell to a departing officer, clearly not her husband. Back on duty in France, Bess is shocked to discover the wife’s photograph in a newspaper accompanying a plea from Scotland Yard for information about her murder, which took place on the very day Bess witnessed that anguished farewell. Granted leave to speak with the authorities, Bess very quickly finds herself entangled in a case of secrets and deadly betrayal in which another life hangs in the balance, and her search for the truth could expose her to far graver dangers than those she faces on the battlefield.

    An Impartial Witness. A Bess Crawford Mystery
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    Bitter Truth LP, A

    • 496bladzijden
    • 18 uur lezen
    3,9(119)Tarief

    Set against the backdrop of post-World War I London, the story follows battlefield nurse Bess Crawford as she navigates the complexities of compassion and duty. During her Christmas leave, she encounters a vulnerable woman seeking refuge from domestic violence. Driven by her sense of responsibility, Bess agrees to accompany her back to Sussex, where unresolved tensions and the specter of conflict await. This journey not only tests Bess's resolve but also explores themes of loyalty, healing, and the impact of war on personal relationships.

    Bitter Truth LP, A
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    UNMARKED GRAVE PB

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    3,9(93)Tarief

    In "An Unmarked Grave," Bess Crawford, a battlefield nurse during World War I, uncovers the body of a murdered British officer amidst the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918. This gripping mystery by Charles Todd invites readers to experience the horrors of war through Bess's eyes as she seeks justice.

    UNMARKED GRAVE PB
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    A Question of Honor

    • 309bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    3,8(171)Tarief

    In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, and begins a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie? In 1908, when a young Bess Crawford lived in India, an unforgettable incident darkened the otherwise happy time. Her father's regiment discovered it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people yet was never brought to trial. A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying man that the alleged murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive and serving at the Front. According to reliable reports, he'd died years before, so how did Wade escape India? What drove a good man to murder in cold blood? Bess uses her leave to investigate. But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, she is shaken to her very core. The facts reveal a reality that could have been her own fate.

    A Question of Honor
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    An Unwilling Accomplice

    • 368bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen
    3,7(4348)Tarief

    Praise for the Ian Rutledge series: I love series that follow particular characters over time and through their experiences, so I automatically read the latest installments from ... Charles Todd. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Times Book Review

    An Unwilling Accomplice
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    A Pattern of Lies

    • 352bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen
    3,9(4119)Tarief

    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 Question of Honor and An Unwilling Accomplice. An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It’s called an appalling tragedy—until suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caught up in a venomous show of hostility that doesn’t stop with Philip Ashton’s arrest. Indeed, someone is out for blood, and the household is all but under siege. The only known witness to the tragedy is now at the Front in France. Bess is asked to find him. When she does, he refuses to tell her anything that will help the Ashtons. Realizing that he believes the tissue of lies that has nearly destroyed a family, Bess must convince him to tell her what really happened that terrible Sunday morning. But now someone else is also searching for this man. To end the vicious persecution of the Ashtons, Bess must risk her own life to protect her reluctant witness from a clever killer intent on preventing either of them from ever reaching England.

    A Pattern of Lies
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    The Shattered Tree

    • 320bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,7(3731)Tarief

    At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isn't British--he's French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German. When Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, won by the Germans. But is the wounded man Alsatian? And if he is, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course, Matron could be right, but Bess remains uneasy--and unconvinced. If he was a French soldier, what was he doing so far from his own lines ... and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris, it's up to Bess--a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse--to find out why, even at the risk of her own life

    The Shattered Tree
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    A Casualty of War

    • 400bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen
    3,8(186)Tarief

    From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it-officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford. Though the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on.

    A Casualty of War
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    A Forgotten Place

    • 384bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen
    3,8(256)Tarief

    Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that are still agonizingly raw.

    A Forgotten Place
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    A Cruel Deception

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,8(1437)Tarief

    In the aftermath of World War I, English nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled officer from a mysterious killer in this eleventh book in the acclaimed Bess Crawford mystery series. The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties involved. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris for a Matron at the London headquarters of The Queen Alexandra's. Bess is facing decisions about her own future, even as she searches for Lawrence Minton

    A Cruel Deception
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    An Irish Hostage

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,9(2330)Tarief

    In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland--in this twelfth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. The Great War has finally come to an end, but tensions remain high throughout Europe. In Ireland, no one has forgotten the bloody 1916 Easter Rising that fought to end British rule in the country. Bess's old friend, nurse Eileen Flynn, returns to her isolated Irish village where two factions continue to battle against each other. Eileen's time with the British army makes her a target for retaliation. Her missing cousin, who was active in the rising and is still being hunted by the British, is her only protection. Despite concerns about her safety, Bess keeps her promise to her wartime friend and travels to Ireland to be part of Eileen's wedding party. But on her arrival, Bess discovers that the groom has gone missing. Then a body is fished from the sea. The villagers are hungry to see justice carried out--for wrongdoings new and old--and Eileen's protection is running out. But clearing her name may mean sacrificing another beloved friend's neck to the noose instead. Bess must unravel a dark, deceptive plot before someone she loves dies.

    An Irish Hostage

  • A Hanging at Dawn

    • 176bladzijden
    • 7 uur lezen
    4,0(82)Tarief

    "Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters." -The Sun-Sentinel From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon's past. Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father's Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who taught Bess to ride and shoot, escorted her to the bazaars and the Maharani's Palace, and did his best to keep her out of trouble, after the Crawford family took an interest in the tall, angry boy with a mysterious past. But the Crawfords have long guarded secrets for Simon and he owes them a debt that runs deeper than Bess could ever know. Told through the eyes of Melinda, Richard, Clarissa, and Bess, A Hanging at Dawn pieces together a mystery at the center of Bess's family that will irrevocably change the course of her future.

    A Hanging at Dawn

  • The Walnut Tree

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen
    3,7(41)Tarief

    In 1914, while visiting her friend Madeleine, Lady Elspeth Douglas' life is thrown into chaos when war breaks out and the Germans quickly overrun Belgium, threatening France. Having just agreed to marry Alain, Madeleine's dashing brother, Lady Elspeth watches him leave to join his unit.

    The Walnut Tree