A Mysterious Review of The Rest Is Silence by James R. Benn. A Billy Boyle, World War II Mystery.
Review summary: The books in this fine historical series are always a thrilling experience, and this one is no exception. The preparations for the Allied invasion of German-occupied France provide a backdrop to the present mystery, one that continues to show the development of the lead character's skills as an Army investigator. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Rest Is Silence
James R. Benn
A Billy Boyle, World War II Mystery
Soho Crime (September 2014)
Publisher synopsis: 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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