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Where A Bitter Truth sits
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- Book 3 of Bess Crawford. See all Bess Crawford books in order
- The book before
- An Impartial Witness
- The book after
- An Unmarked Grave
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- Last checked: September 25, 2026, against charlestodd.com
What A Bitter Truth is about
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- Bess Crawford, a nurse on the battlefields of World War I, comes home to London on leave for Christmas. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London
- She offers to see a badly beaten woman home to her little village in Sussex, and the holiday turns to mystery and murder. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex
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Topics
- Bess Crawford
- Nurses
- World War, 1914-1918
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Reading ages
- Adult
Other books in Bess Crawford
14 books listed so far
- Book 1: A Duty to the Dead
- Book 2: An Impartial Witness
- Book 4: An Unmarked Grave
- Book 5: A Question of Honor
- Book 6: An Unwilling Accomplice
- Book 7: A Pattern of Lies
- Book 8: The Shattered Tree
- Book 9: A Casualty of War
- Book 10: A Forgotten Place
- Book 11: A Cruel Deception
- Book 12: An Irish Hostage
- Book 13: The Cliff's Edge
- Book 14: A Deadly Cost
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