One of the best beginnings of a mystery (historical or otherwise) I've read in a long while. I was just literally fixated for the first 100 pages. After that, we gets a little too convoluted with less-than-necessary characters and too many plotlines that pop up and lead nowhere. But, it is a must read for those first chapters! The story revolves around nurse Bess Crawford who is working the frontlines during WWI when she stumbles upon a body that was not shot, but rather had its neck broken. On her way to report this, she faints and succumbs to the Spanish flu, an epidemic that taking almost as many lives as the war. Once she is better, she finds out that the only people who know of this "mysterious" body are dead, most likely having been killed. Bess is a fabulously feisty character who is almost as good of an amateur sleuth as she is a nurse. A mother and son writing team work under the pseudonym Charles Todd and their writing is highly vivid and strong and the way they create the mounting suspense leaves the reader craving more. I could not put this one down. I will continue to read this Bess Crawford series for sure!
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