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Can I read The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries) on EtoBox?
The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries) by Charles Todd is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries) about?
World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier’s background—and uncover his true loyalties—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 British—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 uneasy—and unconvinced. If he
Who reads The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Charles Todd
- Publisher
- William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062386274
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (1,606 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
