The mother-and-son writing team Charles Todd have another chapter in their popular Bess Crawford mystery series, “A Forgotten Place.” (William Morrow, 354 pages)

The Great War has finally ended with the signing of the armistice, but there are still many grievously wounded soldiers who still need the attention of Sister Crawford. For those who have lost limbs, their disabilities pose seemingly insurmountable difficulties. Suicide is common among these men who fear becoming dependent on their families.

While on leave, Bess Crawford decides to check in on some of her former patients from Wales, and one in particular, a Captain Hugh Williams who had a lost leg in the war.

She is appalled to find that many of his former soldiers have been dying in suspicious accidents. Bess traces Capt. Williams to the cottage of his widowed sister-in-law in a remote part of Wales.

In this secluded village, Bess is shocked to hear that the bodies of two men had washed up ashore and were summarily buried without any notification of the authorities.

The villagers are hiding a deadly secret which threatens Bess and her hosts. Bess finds herself trapped in a tiny hamlet with a vicious killer on the loose.

Charles Todd’s latest mystery evokes all the sinister atmosphere of Daphne du Maurier’s “Jamaica Inn” while capturing the horror of that great human tragedy which was the First World War.

Readers or historical period mysteries will appreciate Charles Todd’s Bess Crawford series.