A Casualty of War
A Bess Crawford Mystery
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Narrator Rosalyn Landor carries this installment of the Nurse Bess Crawford series. When Sister Crawford nurses Captain Alan Travis, he tells her a disturbing story of having been shot by a member of his own unit. Landor deftly re-creates Travis's horrific story and the warm yet tough personality of Crawford. After the Armistice, Landor's tone becomes more deliberative as Crawford decides to investigate Travis's story. It's enjoyable to hear Simon Bradon assist her. Do we dare hope that he'll pursue a romance with her in subsequent books? Landor's best creations are Mrs. Travis, a bitter, vocal woman whom Crawford questions, and Vicar Caldwell and his wife. The couple are on opposite sides of Crawford's investigation, a situation that adds further conflict to the story. S.G.B. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
July 31, 2017
Set in the fall of 1918, bestseller Todd’s strong ninth Bess Crawford mystery (after 2016’s The Shattered Tree) finds the British military nurse still in France, where she meets Capt. Alan Travis, whose English great-grandfather immigrated to Barbados after a family dispute. She reencounters him when he arrives in her field hospital suffering from gunshot wounds. His wild claims that he was deliberately shot by Lt. James Travis—a cousin he met just once—are implausible, and he’s forcibly restrained in a British clinic for mentally impaired soldiers. Bess, who trusts his sanity, promises to help him if she can. In England on leave after the Armistice, she travels to the Suffolk village near where the Travis family lives. The hostility of James’s mother and the murder of a stranger carrying stolen papers about Alan’s whereabouts convince Bess that his family connections put the captain at risk. Harsh period attitudes toward traumatic stress and the exhaustion of a long war add poignancy to Todd’s satisfying puzzle of identity and inheritance. Agent: Jane Chelius, Jane Chelius Literary Agency.
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