A Deadly Cost

In this fourteenth installment of Charles Todd’s beloved Bess Crawford mystery series, the wartime nurse investigates the disappearance of an old friend.

With the Great War finally behind her, Bess Crawford has stepped away from her duties with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, ready to embrace whatever lies ahead. But peace proves short-lived when the troubling news reaches her that a dear friend has vanished.

Elayne—once Bess’s flatmate and trusted confidante during the war—had ...