Bess Crawford Books in Order

Restless after the war, Bess agrees to nurse a distant acquaintance in Yorkshire and is diverted to an isolated valley where a man has died in a fall and another lies badly injured. Caught between two feuding families, she must decide whether the accident was murder and who profits from it.

In the uneasy peace after World War I, Bess travels to a remote Irish village to stand up in a wartime friend's wedding. With the groom abducted, gunmen in the hills, and a corpse on the doorstep, she must navigate local resentments and shifting loyalties to keep her friend alive.

Years before the Great War, young Bess grows up on her father's regiment post along the Indian frontier, watched over by soldier Simon Brandon. When Simon is accused of a hanging murder tied to princely politics, the Crawford family's loyalty is tested by secrets that could cost him his life.

In 1919 Bess is sent quietly to Paris to check on Lawrence Minton, the chief of nursing's son attached to the peace talks. She finds him addicted to laudanum and bent on self destruction, and must uncover the buried wartime secret that shattered him before he destroys himself or others.

After the Armistice, Bess works with severely wounded Welsh soldiers who see no future outside the mines they can no longer enter. Fearing they will take their own lives, she tracks their officer to a bleak coastal village, only to be stranded among locals hiding a killer.

Near the war's end, Bess twice treats Capt. Alan Travis, who insists his English cousin deliberately shot him. When he's later confined to a clinic as delusional, Bess follows a trail from France to rural Suffolk, uncovering tangled family loyalties and a deadly dispute over inheritance.

At an aid station in October 1918, Bess treats a French officer who suddenly curses in fluent German. Soon after she is shot by a sniper and sent to Paris to recover, where curiosity about the mysterious soldier pulls her into espionage, betrayal, and grave personal danger.

While visiting friends in Kent, Bess is caught in the backlash after an explosion at a gunpowder mill kills more than a hundred men. As rage focuses on the mill owner, she is sent to war torn France to find the one witness who can prove whether it was accident or murder.

In this childhood tale from Bess Crawford's years in India, a fortune teller's warning and a visiting maharani's request for protection draw ten year old Bess and trusted orderly Simon Brandon into a tense plot against a royal guest and her fabled pearls.

Home on leave in 1918, Bess is assigned to escort a decorated, wheelchair bound soldier to Buckingham Palace to receive his medal. By morning he has disappeared and soon stands accused of murder, leaving Bess racing across England to clear her name and uncover what really happened.

As a child in India, Bess Crawford lived through a scandal when an officer from her father's regiment killed five people and vanished. A decade later a dying soldier hints the man is alive at the Front, sending Bess home on leave to untangle a shocking betrayal.

In the spring of 1918, Bess is overwhelmed by waves of casualties and Spanish influenza at a field hospital in France. When she discovers a murdered officer hidden among the dead, then falls ill herself, she must later piece together the truth before the killer strikes again.

Returning to London for Christmas 1917, Bess shelters a bruised young wife she finds on her doorstep. Traveling with her to a gloomy Sussex estate, Bess walks into a mourning household, a suspicious death, and family secrets someone will kill to protect.

On leave from the French front, Bess escorts grievously wounded soldiers to England. At a London train station she glimpses a woman she recognizes from a patient's cherished photograph, only to learn the stranger has been murdered, drawing Bess into a dangerous investigation.

Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford promises a dying officer she will deliver his cryptic last words to his family. Visiting their isolated Kent estate after surviving a shipwreck, she uncovers old secrets and a decades old murder that refuses to stay buried.