A Forgotten Place

Name: A Forgotten Place
Rating: 4.4 (1506 reviews)

by Charles Todd Book 10 in the Bess Crawford Mysteries series.

First published 2018

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After the Armistice, Bess Crawford works in a clinic helping amputees face an uncertain civilian future. A letter from a former patient takes her to a remote coal-mining community on the Welsh coast, where unemployed veterans feel abandoned and strangers are watched closely. When the man she came to help disappears and a body is found, Bess is isolated by the tides and by a village determined to protect its own version of the past.

The mystery focuses on the aftermath of industrialized war rather than the battlefield itself. Disability, unemployment and the collapse of wartime purpose have left men and communities vulnerable to despair. Bess’s investigation reveals how readily official gratitude could give way to neglect once wounded soldiers were no longer needed.