A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd – WWI Challenge

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My April book for the The WWI Challenge was A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd, a mystery novel set (mostly) in England while the war was still going on. Heroine Bess Crawford is the daughter of a colonel in the British Army, who grew up in India and other farflung places before returning to England. When the novel opens, she’s been serving as a nurse on a hospital ship.

I really liked this little slice-of-life excerpt from the very beginning:

And now we were in the Kea Channel, just off t...