The only thing about Charles Todd is that he has made his detective hero Ian Rutledge a brilliant man and Bess Crawford really not brilliant
I suppose Inspector Rutledge is a professional and Bess is a nurse so its possible that that is the reason for their difference in ability - but the difference is too stark
Its so obvious right from the start that obviously the heir would have been put in the mental asylum becasue he was the heir and because of the "wicked stepmother"
But Bess continues idiotically to wait till the very end to accept it
She also says idiotic things like"Its too horrible to believe" -
Get a brain Bess !!
Despite this I enjoyed the book for its setting and the story
Review by LM Young at Amazon
Bess Crawford, daughter of a British Army officer and a nurse serving aboard the hospital ship Britannic, is invalided home after the ship is torpedoed and her arm is broken. This gives her the chance to fulfill a soldier's dying wish; Arthur Graham's cryptic deathbed message is to be delivered directly--no letters will do--to his brother Jonathan: "Tell Jonathan I lied. I did it for Mother's sake. But it has to be set right." Bess' letter to the family results in an invitation to the Graham home, but to her surprise, there is no reaction when she delivers the message. Jonathan and Mrs. Graham even question if Arthur was in pain or drugged when he said it. But the longer Bess remains in the Graham home, the more questions begin to arise: what did the message mean and why was it so important to Arthur but not to his family? How did Arthur's oldest brother Peregrine become confined to an insane asylum when he was only fourteen? And when Bess is called on to nurse Peregrine through a bout of pneumonia, why isn't he the dimwitted man he has been described to be?
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