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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, a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie?
Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British Army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. But an unforgettable incident darkened that happy time. In 1908, Colonel Crawford's regiment discovered that it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people in India and England yet was never brought to trial. In the eyes of many of these soldiers, men defined by honor and duty, the crime was a stain on the regiment's reputation and on the good name of Bess's father, the Colonel Sahib, who had trained the killer.
A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying Indian sergeant that the supposed murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive—and serving at the Front. Bess cannot believe the shocking news. According to reliable reports, Wade's body had been seen deep in the Khyber Pass, where he had died trying to reach Afghanistan. Soon, though, her mind is racing. How had he escaped from India? What had driven a good man to murder in cold blood?
Wanting answers, she uses her leave to investigate. In the village where the first three killings took place, she discovers that the locals are certain that the British soldier was innocent. Yet the present owner of the house where the crime was committed believes otherwise, and is convinced that Bess's father helped Wade flee. To settle the matter once and for all, Bess sets out to find Wade and let the courts decide.
But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, something that even the famous writer Rudyard Kipling had kept secret all his life, she is shaken to her very core. The facts will damn Wade even as they reveal a brutal reality, a reality that could have been her own fate.
- Sales Rank: #45643 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-27
- Released on: 2013-08-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
Author One-on-One: Charles Todd and Deborah Crombie
Deborah Crombie is the bestselling author of 15 mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector James, and Detective Superintendent Kincaid, including her latest, The Sound of Broken Glass.
Deborah Crombie: Even though this is the fifth book in the "Bess Crawford" mystery series, it reads like a stand-alone novel. What's your trick to writing a series novel that can be enjoyed by a newcomer as well as a fan?
Charles Todd: We try to put ourselves in the readers’ shoes, so that he or she can start the series anywhere, and still feel right at home. That means concentrating on the current plot and setting, to make it as exciting as if it were the first time Bess ever tried to solve a mystery. That keeps the character fresh too, because our enthusiasm for Bess comes through.
DC: There is a wonderful subtext to the relationship between Bess, the WWI battlefield nurse, and Simon, her father's right-hand man in the military. What's really going on there?
CT: Simon and Bess haven’t told us yet. There’s most certainly chemistry there, a lot of it. Perhaps it hasn’t dawned on them yet that there might be something more between them. Still, every once in a while, a twinge of jealousy crops up…
DC: The scenes of the British Army in India during the Colonial era (which form the background for the current story) are so colorful and fascinating, not the usual stuff of a mystery series. What inspired you to give Bess and her family a history in India?
CT: India made Bess such an intriguing character to work with. We didn’t want her to be a staid Victorian. Instead she experiences Army life and understands duty. Her education includes a different, exotic culture. And the memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny is always fresh, a constant reminder of danger. If you’re going to write about a woman who can stand on her own two feet, there has to be an explanation of how she learned to be so independent. A traditional background wouldn’t have worked.
DC: Will Bess ever meet up with Inspector Rutledge, the protagonist of your other mystery series?
CT: So far, we haven’t come up with any good reason for letting them meet. But there is one character who is in both series—Melinda Crawford. She’s a cousin of Bess’s family and has an Army background in India herself. She’s also a close friend of Rutledge’s family. Who knows if she’ll ever introduce these two? And what will Simon have to say to that?
DC: Bess is such a wonderful character, she feels so contemporary while still being true to her time. She has a real talent of drawing information out of others. What--or who--was your inspiration for Bess?
CT: The familiar Victorian woman, repressed and living under the thumb of her father and then her husband, is only one side of the picture. Intrepid Englishwomen traveled the world as missionaries or like Melinda Crawford, for adventure. Even the Suffragettes were ready to endure prison for their cause. The nurses who served in France, saving lives, were remarkable for their courage and devotion to duty. These are the real-life women who inspired Bess, women on the threshold of our time but still a very real part of their own.
From Booklist
A battlefield nurse familiar with the horrors of trench warfare, Sister Bess Crawford is tirelessly competent, stubborn, and endlessly in motion, though perpetually exhausted. Lieutenant Wade, previously with Bess father’s regiment, reputedly killed five civilians in India and two in England and was presumed killed while attempting to flee. Wade was therefore never brought to justice, casting a pall over regimental honor. Now, years later, Bess bumps into him on the battlefield before he disappears again, and in her moral indignation she sets off in search of an explanation. While on leave, Bess takes shameless advantage of her friend Simon, forcing him to drive her around as she vets shifty and suspicious characters connected to Wade’s childhood and leaves a trail of deadly consequences in her wake. Despite this flitting about, suspense is lacking in this heavily interpretive fifth installment in the series, though series fans will enjoy another adventure of the intrepid and endlessly curious Bess—a heroine whose intuition rivals tht of Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs but whose spunk doesn’t quite match that of Anne Perry’s Hester Latterly. --Jen Baker
About the Author
Charles Todd is the author of the Bess Crawford mysteries, the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, and two stand-alone novels. A mother and son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
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42 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
Best one yet in the series
By Carol S.
For several books, we've learned about Bess Crawford, a colonel's daughter working as a nurse just behind the front lines of WWI. An integral part of Bess's background is her childhood in India; her father was a colonel stationed there and we have heard through the various series in the book how living in India--and how being a respected colonel's daughter--shaped Bess. "A Question of Honor" begins with a prologue harkening back to that time in India. Bess is a presumably a young teenager and she and her family are shocked to hear of the sudden death of a fellow military family's daughter. The daughter was left in England in the care of a sort of foster family, which apparently was a common thing at this time for fear of the many dangers (disease and civil unrest at the top of the list) that living in India presented to a military man's family. We see how deeply this child's death affects Bess's family, and several others stationed with her, including some of the men in her father's regiment. Shortly afterward, one of her father's men is accused of several vicious murders. This cast a long shadow over Bess's father, making him, as leader of his regiment, look bad and troubling all those who had known this Lt. Wade. No one could have predicted he was a murderer; when Wade escapes military custody, there is no trial to bring the facts to light.
Fast forward to 1918. Bess is still working at the front, trying to save soldiers' lives with her nursing skills. A dying patient confides in Bess that he has seen Wade, that he is alive. Bess has always been troubled by the conflict between the Lt. Wade she knew and the one who supposedly killed several people, and so she begins digging around a bit to see if she can learn more. She becomes enmeshed in trying to determine exactly what happened ten years ago, including whether Wade committed the murders of which he is accused and whether he is in fact alive or whether he died in the Middle East ten years ago. The result is one of her most challenging mysteries yet.
I first became a fan of Charles Todd by reading the Ian Rutledge series of mysteries, which are set in the years immediately following WWI and feature a former military man who now works for the police but who is still plagued by what is essentially post-traumatic stress syndrome. The Bess Crawford series has never been as good; partly because the books seem a bit shorter and deliberately lighter in tone, but also because the plots haven't been as complex or rich. Compared to a Rutledge novel, "A Question of Honor" still feels a bit lightweight. However, the mystery is fleshed out better and the fact that the crimes are based in the past makes it a bit more credible that a nurse actively serving at the front could untangle it. The Bess Crawford series will always suffer to some extent from that credibility gap: she isn't a police officer or detective, and she has a grueling and soul-crushing job as battlefield nurse, so just how is she able to (a) encounter all these murder mysteries, and (b) have the time or energy to gallivant back and forth and investigate them, but I found myself able to overlook the credibility gap by getting involved in the storyline. Overall, I enjoyed reading the book as a lighter alternative to the Rutledge series (in the sense of a less introspective heroine, more reliance on coincidence to move the plot along) that doesn't skimp on the historical background.
50 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
Where can I even begin?
By Too Old For This
Where can I even begin?
1. This was a slow slog from the get-go. It took several weeks to finish, when I'd normally be done in a day or two.
2. The characters are flat and underdeveloped.
3. Some scenes and characters (e.g. Simon and his cottage) are an obvious rip off from Jacqueline Winspear's work.
4. The writing is choppy, like a high-schooler trying his/her hand at a first book. The sentences are short and the dialogue is uninventive. Note the frequent (and maddening use) of "she grinned", "he grinned", "they grinned."
5. The authors are so unfamiliar with England, that they have decided that swishing out a teapot with boiling water before making tea is for cleaning out the pot. Do they really think Brits don't wash up the tea dishes, pot included? Swishing the tea pot for boiling water is for warming the pot, so that the end product—a good cuppa—is nice and hot. If an occasional used tea leaf is dislodged in the swishing process, so be it.
6. The authors are under the impression that "putting up food in jars" is a World-War-One Britishism. This concept even turns up as a repeat motif in the book. Er, NO: it is a very American expression from at least as far back as the Depression. In England, the term "bottling" is used, for instance, in preserving gooseberries.
7. The authors have assumed that it is easy to drive hither and yon in England and that it always has been. One moment Bess Crawford is in Kent, the next in Somerset, the next up in London. Then there are trips to Dover, apparently at the drop of a pin. Have the authors even tried those drives under current conditions on the motorways? Have they even tried getting from Point A to Point B, from one county to the next now? They are evidently out of touch with what English driving conditions were like in the first half of the 20th century, let alone the 1920's.
8. While Bess Crawford and Simon are magically zooming all over the countryside, they also manage to spirit themselves over to France (and back) on the ferries/boats without it being an all-day event between Calais and London. Some travel would be in order for Charles Todd, and not in the modern-day hydrofoils.
9. Although the authors did not drift into the every-page American modernisms that infect their previous novels, a "Question of Honor" still has those aplenty.
For the amount this book costs, I think the authors could spend a lot more care in developing the writing beyond a "draft", researching material on-site, by consulting "old timers", and finding an editor who is familiar with England.
For a much more genuine series featuring a young woman detective in post-World-War-One England and far more careful editing, I recommend the work of Carola Dunn.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
A Better Bess
By Bella Rosa
This fifth installment in the Bess Crawford series begins with a prologue set during Bess' teenage years in India, when one of her father's trusted officers is accused of five gruesome murders. The man flees into the Khyber Pass and is assumed to have died. Chapter one picks up ten years later, when a dying man tells Bess he's seen the officer, Lieutenant Wade, alive and serving in the nearby trenches. Within a few days Bess has glimpsed Wade herself, bringing back all the old confusion about his guilt or innocence. In true Bess fashion, she decides to investigate.
Bess is still asking busybody questions of complete strangers, but at least this time around several people find that annoying and one gets downright hostile, so that was refreshing. Bess' connection to this mystery is more personal than usual as well - Lt. Wade's alleged crimes smeared the reputation of her father and his regiment, so getting to the truth is as much about vindicating her father as it is her natural nosiness. Thankfully, there are none of the off-stage machinations from Simon and Colonel Sahib that pushed the plot in the last book, and while there's still no way for the reader to guess the culprit before the end, that works with the structure of this story.
Overall, this was the most satisfying entry in this series since the first. I'm glad I decided to ignore the fact that I'd sworn off this series and grabbed this one for review.
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