Bess Crawford is now nursing on the Western Front and is bringing soldiers home to England for convalescence. One is an airman who was badly burned in a crash. He is looking forward to seeing his wife, and has held onto a photo of her.
When Bess arrives in London she sees a young woman in tears talking to an officer. The officer walks coldly away from her. Bess realises that the young woman is the wife of the airman. She wonders why she would be in tears knowing that her husband was coming home.
It is only later back in France, that Bess finds out that the woman has been murdered and Scotland Yard is asking for information which might shed some light on her death. She writes to Scotland Yard with her information and soon finds herself dragged into a murder mystery; one that includes a sister that hated the dead woman. The dead woman was about three months pregnant, the child couldn't have been her husband's. When the husband was told about this by his sister, he committed suicide. Later another officer is murdered and an attempt is made on the lives of two friends of the murdered woman.
Author Charles Todd points the reader in the direction of three possible culprits, but it is only at the end of the book that we discover who the true murderer is. A good quick read.
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