This is one of the series featuring Bess Crawford the WWI nurse who also solves crimes on the side! These books are rather long and involved so I wouldn't want a steady diet of them but I do enjoy them. This book begins in 1908 when Bess was a child living in India. It seems that a soldier in her father's regiment has become a dangerous man and is believed to have killed five people. His name is Lieutenant Wade. The authorities were unable to bring him to justice because he escaped and it was believed that he was dead when he never surfaced again.
Skip forward to Bess a decade later when she is a nurse with the troops. A dying man tells Bess that Wade is still alive. Thus begins an investigation by Bess (and friends and family!) to find Wade. Her impetuous was to clear the cloud above her father that remained since the incident.
I love the background of WWI and reading about the social norms of the day.
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