The new book by Charles Todd, "A Duty to the Dead", is good but doesn't quite strike the same chord as the Maisie Dobbs series. We meet Bess Crawford, an English army nurse as the ship she's on, headed towards Greece, hits a mine and everyone must abandon ship. Her arm is badly broken and she is eventually sent home to recuperate.
A former patient had asked her to deliver a message to his brother and Bess reluctantly does so. His message indicates that he had lied to save his mother pain but it (whatever "it" is) must be made right. This is a very disfunctional family that she's gotten involved with, including a son who was sent to an insane asylum at fourteen for murdering a servent girl. Bess will keep poking around until she finds the truth, does her duty to the dead and brings justice to the innocent.
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