I'm currently reading A QUESTION OF HONOR by Charles Todd. This is 5th of 5 in series featuring Bess Crawford, a British army nurse in WWI. Here is a description:
Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British Army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. But an unforgettable incident darkened that happy time. In 1908, Colonel Crawford's regiment discovered that it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people in India and England yet was never brought to trial. In the eyes of many of these soldiers, men defined by honor and duty, the crime was a stain on the regiment's reputation and on the good name of Bess's father, the Colonel Sahib, who had trained the killer. A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying Indian sergeant that the supposed murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive—and serving at the Front. Bess cannot believe the shocking news. According to reliable reports, Wade's body had been seen deep in the Khyber Pass, where he had died trying to reach Afghanistan. Soon, though, her mind is racing. How had he escaped from India? What had driven a good man to murder in cold blood? Wanting answers, she uses her leave to investigate. In the village where the first three killings took place, she discovers that the locals are certain that the British soldier was innocent. Yet the present owner of the house where the crime was committed believes otherwise, and is convinced that Bess's father helped Wade flee. To settle the matter once and for all, Bess sets out to find Wade and let the courts decide. But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, something that even the famous writer Rudyard Kipling had kept secret all his life, she is shaken to her very core. The facts will damn Wade even as they reveal a brutal reality, a reality that could have been her own fate.
It is just dang hot. We had one helluva storm yesterday. I was stuck at Albertsons when it hit. At one point I made a run for the car and got drenched in 1.2 seconds. I got home to find Ryker had escaped the yard again which worried me because a) he hates storms and b) visibility was so bad during the storm I was afraid he'd be hit by a car. But he came from the west, wet but happy, damn dog.
Today we took the boys for a quick ride down to the shop and they met another puppy -- belonged to an employee -- and Coda and Sophie played for a bit inside the shop. I think Coda learned how annoying it is when someone wants to play and jumps at you (he does that all the time to Ryker).
We're having dinner at Mom & Dad's with Lisa and Scott. Nuttin' fancy, just pizza, but it will be nice to visit and not have to plan dinner.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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