A Forgotten Place: A Bess Crawford Mystery Paperback - 2019

Though the Armistice has been signed and the guns silenced, the suffering has not ended. Many soldiers carry wounds that are still agonizingly raw. Back in England, battlefield Nurse Bess Crawford has been reassigned to a clinic for the severely injured. Among these patients are Welsh soldiers who will return home to their valley utterly changed. Bess knows the future will be difficult for them and their families. She fears that peace will do what war could not--take their lives.

A few weeks after the soliders return home, their officer, Captain Hugh Williams, writes to describe their despair, and his own at trying to save his men. But the Army and the clinic can do nothing. So Bess quietly travels to the bleak coal-mining village in Wales. But she is too late. His men now dead, Captain Williams has fled the valley. Fearing that he intends to kill himself, Bess follows him to an isolated, storm-battered peninsula--a harsh and forgotten place where sinister secrets and death seem to go hand in hand. Deserted by her frightened driver in the middle of the night, Bess is stranded among strangers suspicious of outsiders. She quickly discovers these villagers are hiding something, and she's learned too much to be allowed to leave.

Why is there no Constable out here? Why were two bodies that mysteriously washed ashore buried in unmarked graves without an inquiry or even a prayer? Captain Williams and his brother's widow, Rachel, are her only allies, and Bess must take care not to put them at risk as she tries to find answers. But there is a murderer here who is driven to kill again and again.