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A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Nominations 1999 » Award Nominated Nominated Work Dilys Award: Wings of Fire: 1997. Nominated Work Sue Feder Historical Mystery: A Duty to the Dead: 1999. Fans of independent women sleuths like Maisie Dobbs will welcome this new addition to their ranks. Awards by Charles Todd : Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles Todd. The more Bess seeks to sate her curiosity, the more she suspects that the truth about the murder was suppressed. Bess becomes further enmeshed in the family's affairs after she learns the obscure message may relate to Graham's half-brother, Peregrine, who was committed to a local asylum for a girl's murder years before. Her own brush with death prompts her to travel to Kent and transmit Arthur's cryptic last words to one of his three brothers. While convalescing in England, Bess is tormented because she's put off delivering a message from Arthur Graham, a dying soldier under her care for whom she'd developed strong feelings, to his family. ![]() The winning first in a new WWI series from the bestselling mother-son Todds ( A Matter of JusticeĪnd 10 other Inspector Rutledge mysteries) introduces Bess Crawford, a resourceful British army nurse who's injured when her ship is sunk in 1916. ![]()
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