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Billy Boyle goes to war.
September 2007 | Fiction-Mystery
$12 Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56947-476-1
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"It is a pleasure marching
off to war with the spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined
and vividly rendered, and he tells a finely suspenseful yarn."
—Dan
Fesperman, author of The Prisoner of Guantanomo |
“Benn provides historically
accurate background and appealing characters, spices the narrative with romance
and emotion, and ruminates about the consequences of actions, all in a suitably
straightforward prose style. A solid addition to mystery collections.”
—Library Journal |
“Benn crafts a crackling good adventure,
with much flavorsome period color…”
—Kirkus Reviews |
"This book has got it all—an instant
classic."
—Lee Child, author of One Shot |
“Billy Boyle. Not only of the Greatest
Generation, U.S. Army, assigned to find a spy, but he's an ex-cop. Ex-Boston
cop. With a tale as tight as a drum. Doesn't get any better than this.”
—Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, Girls of Tender Age: A
Memoir and the Poppy
Rice mysteries |
“Slyly plotted, rich with atmosphere
... Billy Boyle is a treat form start to finish.”
—Owen
Parry, author of the Abel Jones series |
| Chosen as an Independent Mystery Booksellers Dilys Winn Award Nominees 2007. Other nominees include, HOLMES ON THE RANGE, Steve Hockensmith (St. Martin's Minotaur); THE MOURNFUL TEDDY, John J. Lamb (Berkley Prime Crime); STILL LIFE, Louise Penny (St. Martin's Minotaur); THE VIRGIN OF SMALL PLAINS, Nancy Pickard (Ballantine); THE THIRTEENTH TALE, Diane Setterfield (Atria Books). The winner will be announced at Left Coast Crime in Seattle, February 1-4, 2007. |
MMB101's Book of the Year - #5 : "James R. Benn's Billy Boyle has everything to satisfy fans of both World War 2 history and mystery...The combination of historical events with the fictional tale of Billy Boyle make this one of the best reads of the year. This is the start of a promising series." - Murder & Mystery Books 101 |
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What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish-American cop who’s never been
out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house,
having lunch with Haakon, King of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back
home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling
to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his
mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant
cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters
are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to
be his personal investigator.
Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation
Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared
that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities,
with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but
Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.
JAMES R. BENN is a graduate of the University
of Connecticut and Southern Connecticut State. He has worked in the library
field for twenty-five years and resides in Hadlyme, Connecticut.
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