Play it in Between
(2025)(The second book in the Byrns on the Homefront series)
A novel by J Sydney Jones
Former NYPD Detective Max Byrns has his hands full in Play It In Between, the second volume in the celebrated ‘Byrns on the Homefront’ series.
Max—now a deputy with the San Ignacio police —is awakened early one morning in May, 1942, to investigate a body spotted on the beach by Wolf Hinkley. The cop shop calls him Wolf, because he cries wolf a lot, phoning up to report a Japanese invasion fleet spotted out of his ocean-front window. Such ‘invasion fleets’ have always turned out to be either a couple of fishing boats out for a late run or a pod of whales entering deep into the bay.
But this time, no false alarm. The body on the beach leads Max on a convoluted investigation that morphs from murder to cover-up, fraud, blackmail, and espionage. His search for truth and justice takes him from tiny San Ignacio to the Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood during the filming of Casablanca.
Max is again joined by his art-restorer wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Philip, who is serving in the Counterintelligence Corps with a new posting that brings him once again into his parents’ orbit. It’s a family affair.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Max—now a deputy with the San Ignacio police —is awakened early one morning in May, 1942, to investigate a body spotted on the beach by Wolf Hinkley. The cop shop calls him Wolf, because he cries wolf a lot, phoning up to report a Japanese invasion fleet spotted out of his ocean-front window. Such ‘invasion fleets’ have always turned out to be either a couple of fishing boats out for a late run or a pod of whales entering deep into the bay.
But this time, no false alarm. The body on the beach leads Max on a convoluted investigation that morphs from murder to cover-up, fraud, blackmail, and espionage. His search for truth and justice takes him from tiny San Ignacio to the Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood during the filming of Casablanca.
Max is again joined by his art-restorer wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Philip, who is serving in the Counterintelligence Corps with a new posting that brings him once again into his parents’ orbit. It’s a family affair.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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