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- Type
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- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780062386274
- Book Title
- Shattered Tree : a Bess Crawford Mystery
- Book Series
- Bess Crawford Mysteries Ser.
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 15.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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 bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review) France, October 1918. Though the war is nearing its end, the German enemy refuses to go quietly. During a nighttime barrage, British stretcher bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds, clinging to life at the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire. The soldier is brought to Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a base hospital. Surprisingly, the officer isn't British-he's wearing the tattered remnants of a French uniform. And even stranger, when he shouts out in anger and pain, he speaks in fluent German. When Bess reports the incident to the hospital's matron, her weary superior offers a plausible explanation. The soldier must be from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, which was won by the Germans. Of course, Matron could be right. Still, Bess remains uneasy-and unconvinced. What was a French soldier doing so far from his own lines . . . and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight And if he is Alsatian, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie Before she can inquire further, Bess is wounded while helping to evacuate soldiers from the battlefield. Sent to Paris to recuperate, she discovers that her mysterious soldier is also in the French capital . . . but has disappeared. Could he have been the infamous German spotter for the "Paris Gun" that is the talk of the Allied Army It had shelled terrified Parisians earlier in the year, then fell silent. Or could he be involved in some other dark treachery With the unexpected help of Captain Barkley, the congenial American whose path crossed with hers once before, the intrepid Bess-a soldier's daughter and dedicated nurse-embarks on a dangerous hunt to find the man and uncover the truth, even at the risk of her own life.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062386271
ISBN-13
9780062386274
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219262818
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shattered Tree : a Bess Crawford Mystery
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Publication Year
2016
Book Series
Bess Crawford Mysteries Ser.
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Series Volume Number
8
Lc Classification Number
Ps3570.O37s53 2016
Reviews
Bess is a character with depth and complexity, an army nurse during that awful war, so, like that series, not only intricate mysteries but engrossing historical fiction.'|9780062386274|, Admirable, courageous and occasionally reckless, Bess ranks among the best of fictional amateur sleuths. [Todd] again creates a thought-provoking novel that evokes the terrors and suspicions of war., A fast, engrossing, and entertaining read....The mystery has excellent pacing, giving readers just enough clues to keep us absorbed in the story while withholding sufficient information to keep us from solving it before reaching the end., A gripping whodunit haunted by the brutal realities of war and graced with the selfless determination of Bess to uncover the truth., Praise for A Question of Honor: "A gripping whodunit haunted by the brutal realities of war and graced with the selfless determination of Bess to uncover the truth.", Todd's meticulous research... illustrates the toll the war has taken on the battle-weary military as well as the nurses and doctors, the sacrifices of the residents, [and] the citizens' valiant struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy…. A vivid and personal look at WWI., [Charles Todd's] books are like Sherlock Holmes detecting a crime in Downton Abbey, with more gravitas., Praise for An Unwilling Accomplice: "Bess is a character with depth and complexity, an army nurse during that awful war, so, like that series, not only intricate mysteries but engrossing historical fiction.', Praise for The Shattered Tree : " The Shattered Tree is an enjoyable and quick read-well worth the time.", Praise for An Unwilling Accomplice: "Bess is a character with depth and complexity, an army nurse during that awful war, so, like that series, not only intricate mysteries but engrossing historical fiction.", Praise for A Pattern of Lies: "A richly realistic depiction of both the era and people who lived through it.", Praise for The Shattered Tree : " The Shattered Tree is an enjoyable and quick read-well worth the time." -- New York Journal of Books "A fast, engrossing, and entertaining read....The mystery has excellent pacing, giving readers just enough clues to keep us absorbed in the story while withholding sufficient information to keep us from solving it before reaching the end." -- All About Romance "[A] riveting mystery... It is almost as if the Great War has become a secondary character." -- MilitaryPress.com "Todd's meticulous research... illustrates the toll the war has taken on the battle-weary military as well as the nurses and doctors, the sacrifices of the residents, [and] the citizens' valiant struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy.... A vivid and personal look at WWI." -- SouthFlorida.com " The Shattered Tree is a true spellbinder. From spies to the brutal facts of war to Bess's unwavering determination to uncover the truth, author Charles Todd has penned yet another fantastic thriller." -- Suspense Magazine "Admirable, courageous and occasionally reckless, Bess ranks among the best of fictional amateur sleuths. [Todd] again creates a thought-provoking novel that evokes the terrors and suspicions of war." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch Another Charles Todd book is always a luscious treat, and I devoured The Shattered Tree in one sitting... Highly recommended. -- Historical Novel Society Praise for A Question of Honor: "A gripping whodunit haunted by the brutal realities of war and graced with the selfless determination of Bess to uncover the truth." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch on A QUESTION OF HONOR Praise for An Unwilling Accomplice: "Bess is a character with depth and complexity, an army nurse during that awful war, so, like that series, not only intricate mysteries but engrossing historical fiction." -- SCDemocrat.com on AN UNWILLING ACCOMPLICE Praise for A Pattern of Lies: "A richly realistic depiction of both the era and people who lived through it." -- Margaret Maron, Edgar Award-winning author "[Charles Todd's] books are like Sherlock Holmes detecting a crime in Downton Abbey, with more gravitas." -- Nancy Thayer, author of THE ISLAND HOUSE "As always in this immensely satisfying series, Todd heightens the mystery by setting it within a war-shattered world of battered villages, barren farms and broken people." -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review on THE SHATTERED TREE
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-002845
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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