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Beware This Boy

By: Maureen Jennings
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham, where an explosion in a munitions factory has killed or badly injured several of the young women who have taken on dangerous work in support of the war effort.

At first, it seems more than likely the explosion was an accident, and Tom has only been called in because the forces are stretched thin. But as he talks to the employees of the factory, inner divisions - between the owner and his employees, between unionists and workers who fear communist infiltration - begin to appear. Put that together with an AWOL young soldier who unwittingly puts all those he loves at risk and a charming American documentary filmmaker who may be much more than he seems, and you have a pause-register novel that bears all the hallmarks of Maureen Jennings' extraordinary talent: a multi-faceted mystery, vivid characters, snappy dialogue, and a pitch-perfect sense of the era of the Blitz, when the English were pushed to their limits and responded with a courage and resilience that still inspires.

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Disappointing.

I really enjoyed the first book in this series but this one was unbearable boring. Some interesting snippets of historical detail regarding work in a mutions factory, but I really couldn't get a sense of life in wartime Birmingham.

I won't criticize the narrator as he really had his work cut out for him. He sounded like he is American, so the American character was fine, but his "posh" English was just ok, and his working class Brummie was best forgotten .

Very sad to find this series not really as satisfying as the first book promised.

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