Byrns on the Homefront #2
March 29, 2025 by Scene of the Crime
I’m happy to announce that the second quantity in my “Byrns on the Homefront Collection” will likely be obtainable in early April from Werthen Press. Keep tuned for pub date. In the meantime, right here’s a teaser of this second quantity:
Former NYPD Detective Max Byrns has his fingers full in Play It In Between, the second quantity within the celebrated ‘Byrns on the Homefront’ collection.
Max—now a deputy with the San Ignacio police —is woke up early one morning in Might, 1942, to research a physique noticed on the seaside by Wolf Hinkley. The cop store calls him Wolf as a result of he cries wolf loads, phoning as much as report a Japanese invasion fleet noticed out of his ocean-front window. Such ‘invasion fleets’ have all the time turned out to be both a few fishing boats out for a late run or a pod of whales getting into deep into the bay.
However this time, no false alarm. The physique on the seaside leads Max on a convoluted investigation that morphs from homicide to cover-up, fraud, blackmail, and espionage. His seek for fact and justice takes him from tiny San Ignacio to the Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood in the course of the filming of Casablanca.
Max is once more joined by his art-restorer spouse, Elizabeth, and their son, Philip, who’s serving within the Counterintelligence Corps, with a brand new posting that brings him as soon as once more into his mother and father’ orbit.
It’s a household affair.
