
The Shattered Tree
A Bess Crawford Mystery
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Narrated by:
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Rosalyn Landor
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By:
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Charles Todd
Edgar Award winner, Mary Higgins Clark, 2017.
World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background - and uncover his true loyalties - in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the best-selling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review).
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.
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History and Mystery
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Excellent Audiobook
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Solid Bess Crawford installment
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Typical Bess Crawford
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The mystery was interesting. I'm still not quite sure how Bess figured it out. I was listening at night; I might have missed something. I know I missed having more Simon in the story.
The narration was good. Rosalyn Landor is one of my favorites.
Since the war is winding down, Sister Crawford will have a future to think about. I'll look forward to the next book - more than I did this one.
Better than the last one
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Great series
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Excellent series
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Seemed far fetched
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Good Narration
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