Bess is strong, but she is also very feminine, very caring. Late trends with female characters are to make them strong by making the masculine. I loved this mix of strong traits and gentle ones because I find they are very rare to come by. She has a strong heart, as her’ army family’ requires, but also a very gentle soul, as her profession requires.
The first novel in the long-standing Bess Crawford WWI Mystery series and such a discovery!īess is a battlefield nurse, daughter to a colonel of the English Army. Still, I was relieved that he found them unremarkable. It was only my imagination running rampant, of course. I couldn’t tell my father that with time those words had become sinister. A duty to the dead is sacred, I needn’t tell you that.” “But you have a responsibility not to put it off again. “I don’t see that there’s been any harm done, waiting until now to pass it on to his brother,” he replied slowly. Afraid that he might read something in the words that I hadn’t. “I had to repeat the words two or three times, to be certain I knew them by heart. I took a deep breath, trying to keep my voice steady. I considered his suggestion, realizing that it was exactly what I wanted to do. Would you like to tell me what it is, and let me judge?” He cleared his throat, in that way he had to put things behind them. 12th September 2019 jazzfeathers 1910s, Bess Crawford Mysteries, cosy mystery, historical novel, London, murder mystery, mystery story, Thursday Quotables, WWI 4 Comments
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