A review by nursenell
A Cruel Deception by Charles Todd

3.0

The war is over and Bess is back in England, still with The Queen Alexandras, nursing wounded soldiers. She is sent by the Matron on a trip to Paris to check on the Matron’s soldier son who is attending the peace negotiations but hasn’t been heard from. I enjoyed the book because I like Bess and her no nonsense approach to life but there were parts of the story that were just too unbelievable. The probability that a French husband and father could find the one British officer whom he held responsible for his family’s death seems remote at best. And that Bess could find the same British officer, who was the Matron’s son, by wandering around Paris seems equally remote. And that the French father/husband would follow Bess around until he found the soldier, I don’t see that it could happen.