Order of Bess Crawford Books

Order of Bess Crawford Books


Bess Crawford is a series of mystery novels by American authors Caroline and Charles Todd under the shared pseudonym of Charles Todd. Bess is a British nurse working in France during World War I.

Charles Todd wrote the first Bess Crawford book in 2009, titled A Duty to the Dead. Since then, there has been a new book in the series each year. Below is the order of Charles Todd’s Bess Crawford books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Bess Crawford Books

A Duty to the Dead

(2009)

An Impartial Witness

(2010)

A Bitter Truth

(2011)

An Unmarked Grave

(2012)

A Question of Honor

(2013)

An Unwilling Accomplice

(2014)

The Maharani’s Pearls

(2014)

A Pattern of Lies

(2015)

The Shattered Tree

(2016)

A Casualty of War

(2017)

A Forgotten Place

(2018)

A Cruel Deception

(2019)

A Hanging at Dawn

(2020)

An Irish Hostage

(2021)

The Cliff’s Edge

(2023)