{"product_id":"2940170037988","title":"The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldieramp;#8217;s backgroundamp;#8212;and uncover his true loyaltiesamp;#8212;in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling amp;#8220;vivid period mystery seriesamp;#8221; (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawfordamp;#8217;s aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isnamp;#8217;t Britishamp;#8212;heamp;#8217;s French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, won by the Germans. But is the wounded man Alsatian? And if he is, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course, Matron could be right, but Bess remains uneasyamp;#8212;and unconvinced. If he was a French soldier, what was he doing so far from his own lines . . . and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the French officer disappears in Paris, itamp;#8217;s up to Bessamp;#8212;a soldieramp;#8217;s daughter as well as a nurseamp;#8212;to find out why, even at the risk of her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117136789744,"sku":"2940170037988","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170037988_p0.jpg?v=1763699753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170037988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}