The Rest Is Silence (Billy Boyle World War II Mystery)
β Scribed by Benn, James R
- Book ID
- 108887663
- Publisher
- Soho Crime
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 422 KB
- Series
- Billy Boyle World War II 9
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616952662
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The fog of war surrounding D-Day and Operation Tiger provides cover for one of Billy Boyle's grisliest investigations.
When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands on England's southern coast, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshire beach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for the approaching D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from. Luckily, Billy and Kaz have a comfortable place to lay their heads at the end of the day: Kaz's old school chum David lives close by and has agreed to host the two men during their investigation. Glad for a distraction from his duties, Billy settles into life at David's family's fancy manor, Ashcroft, and makes it his mission to get to know its intriguing cast of characters.
Just when Billy and Kaz begin to wrap up their case, they find themselves with not one soggy corpse on their hands but hundreds following a terrible tragedy during the D-Day rehearsal. To complicate things, life at Ashcroft has been getting tense: secret agendas, buried histories, and family grudges abound. Then one of the men meets a sudden demise. Was it a heart attack? Or something more sinister?
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Whatβs a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop whoβs never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, heβd barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to f
βThis book has got it allβan instant classic.ββLee Child, author of The Hard Way βA tale as tight as a drum. Doesnβt get any better than this.ββMary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of the Poppy Rice mysteries βIt is a pleasure marching off to war with spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined