King's series about Mary Russell you will like this series too. I stated the same thing in A Pattern of Lies and I feel it still. I think one of the reasons I find this series so appealing is that it does remind me of Laurie. The mystery of the message and the brother everyone is trying to forget was really good and I was gripped by the whole story. I found the first book in the series quite good. I mean I'm not against romance in books, but mostly I want it to have a smaller place in the story. There is no romance luring left and right on the book. And, that is one thing I really love about this book, Bess feels like a solid character with her feet steady on the ground. She just happens to be the one that starts it all, the one that sets everything in motion. Bess Crawford is not an amateur sleuth, she is a nurse and the mystery she happens to stumble on isn't something she had planned to solve. Now I have only read two books, but I feel that the WW1 milieu and the characters are truly well-done. I think this series is starting to be one of my favorites. But then Bess learns that there is another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum… But it has to be set right.' But the strange thing is that neither the mother nor the brothers admit knowing what the message is about. She survived with a broken arm and since she can't work decides to travel to Kent to visit the mother and sibling of a dying soldier last word 'Tell Jonathan that I lied. And, of course, I wanted to read the series from the beginning and lucky me I own the first book as an eBook.īess Crawford works as a nurse during WW1 and is home now after being onboard a hospital ship that sunk. I have previously read book seven in the series A Pattern of Lies a little while ago and I just absolutely loved that book.

A duty to the dead by charles todd