{"product_id":"the-shattered-tree-a-bess-crawford-mystery","title":"The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorld 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” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course, Matron could be right, but Bess remains uneasy—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?\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the French officer disappears in Paris, it’s up to Bess—a soldier’s daughter as well as a nurse—to find out why, even at the risk of her own life.","brand":"Charles Todd","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53143707222307,"sku":"9780062386281","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53497210011939,"sku":"9780062386274","price":20.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062386281.jpg?v=1741127524","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/the-shattered-tree-a-bess-crawford-mystery","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}