In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles
Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an
old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, and begins a
search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a
troubling question: How can facts lie?
In 1908, when a young Bess Crawford lived in India, an unforgettable
incident darkened the otherwise happy time. Her father's regiment
discovered it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five
people yet was never brought to trial.
A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France
during World War I, Bess learns from a dying man that the alleged
murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive and serving at the Front. According
to reliable reports, he'd died years before, so how did Wade escape
India? What drove a good man to murder in cold blood? Bess uses her
leave to investigate. But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, she
is shaken to her very core. The facts reveal a reality that could have
been her own fate.