Bess Crawford Series – Book 2
Early Summer 1917 – Serving in France during the First World War, Bess Crawford is sent back to England in with a convoy of severely wounded men. One of her patients, a young pilot, has clung to a photograph of his wife since he was pulled from the wreckage of his plane, and Bess sees the photo every time she tends to him. After the patients are transferred to a clinic in Hampshire, Bess is given forty-eight hours of leave which she plans to spend in her London flat catching up on much-needed sleep. But in the railway station, in a mob of troops leaving for the front, Bess catches a glimpse of a familiar face—that of the same pilot’s wife. She is bidding a very emotional farewell to another officer. Back in France days later, Bess picks up an old newspaper with a line drawing of the woman’s face on the front page, and a plea from Scotland Yard asking if anyone has seen her. The woman had been murdered the very evening Bess glimpsed her at the terminal. Bess asks for leave to report what she knows to Scotland Yard. And what she learns in England leads her to embark on the search for a devious and very dangerous killer—a search that will put her own life in jeopardy.