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Lädt ... The Shattered Treevon Charles Todd
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Lauren2013 | May 5, 2023 |   Anyway, this book is, to be honest not my favorite in the series. I'm actually I bit disappointed how weak the story felt compared to A Pattern of Lies. I grew a bit frustrated reading the book because the main story about the soldier that may or may not be a german spy just didn't rock my boat. It was not totally bad, I just didn't find The Shattered Tree as intriguing and as engrossing to read as I usually do with the books in this series. And, I missed Sergeant Lassiter who wasn't even in this book, just mentioned a couple of times (Yes I did a search for him after reading 1/3 of the book because I was really looking forward to reading about Bess and him meeting again). Now, I don't say that the book was bad because Sergeant Lassiter wasn't in it, rather it just didn't make the situation better. So, not my favorite book in the series, still good to read, but I hope the next book in the series will be better! I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through Edelweiss for an honest review! (  ) MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 | Another slow paced well-written mystery in this series. (  ) Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |  ) DeaconBernie | Feb 20, 2020 | ) delphimo | Jun 16, 2019 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheBess Crawford (8) Auszeichnungen
Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's backgroundâ??and uncover his true loyaltiesâ??in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review). At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isn't Britishâ??he's French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German. When Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, won by the Germans. But is the wounded man Alsatian? And if he is, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course, Matron could be right, but Bess remains uneasyâ??and unconvinced. If he was a French soldier, what was he doing so far from his own lines . . . and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris, it's up to Bessâ??a soldier's daughter as well as a nurseâ??to find out why, even at the risk of Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.59)
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WWI nurse Bess Crawford grows suspicious when a delirious French officer brought in to the aid station begins speaking in German. The simple explanation is that he is from the Alsace-Lorraine region, but Bess decides to investigate nonetheless, and uncovers a decades-old murder mystery.
Similar plot to A Question of Honor only this time there is no personal or professional reason for Bess's insistence on trying to ferret out the identity of the mysterious French officer. Thus, she spends much of the book interfering in matters that do not concern her and comes across as an insensitive, meddlesome and annoying busybody.
Simon Brandon is also sorely missing from the storyline aside from a couple of scenes, so there is once again no development in his relationship with Bess. Instead, readers are "rewarded" with the patronizing Captain Barclay who believes women should know there place and remain in it.
The mystery itself had potential, but there are so many strange coincidences and convoluted assumptions that it is easy to get lost. Moreover, the killer is both patently obvious but also impossible to figure out as her has adopted an assumed name.
Overall, not one of the best in the series. (