Tag: A Bitter Wind

“Conan Doyle?” I asked. “Any relation to…?”

Poor Billy Boyle. It’s Christmas Day 1944 and he’s managed to finagle a whole day’s leave from taking out Eisenhower’s dirty laundry at SHAEF. All he wants to do is take a walk down the White Cliffs of Dover hand in hand with girlfriend Lady Diana Seaton. It is not to be, however, as they…

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Guest post from Jim Benn, to mark the twentieth novel in his superb Billy Boyle series. A few years ago, I began pondering a storyline for the twentieth novel in my Billy Boyle WWII mystery series. It had to be something special. As often happens, while researching the book I was currently writing, I found…

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