A review by nursenell
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd

5.0

This is the first book in the Bess Crawford series, which I was introduced to when I read the 7th one in the series by chance. Bess is an only child who grew up in India where her father was a career military officer. Bess becomes a nurse in the British nursing corps and serves in France during WWI. She is injured when the hospital ship she serves on, the Brittanic, is torpedoed. She is sent back to England to recuperate. She takes advantage of being back home to deliver a message from a dying soldier she had cared for. She delivers the message to the soldier's brother and suddenly she finds herself involved in secrets from the past, and people who want those secrets kept secret. Good read.