John Lawton
Smoke and Embers (Inspector Troy, 9)
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Smoke and Embers is the ninth in Lawton’s Chief Inspector Troy series. The novel opens in London in 1950 but jumps back into ...Read Review
Friends and Traitors
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Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy has known Guy Burgess since the mid-1930s. Burgess, a product of Cambridge and a Russian ...Read Review
The Unfortunate Englishman
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I confess that I do enjoy ambiguous titles. Does “the unfortunate Englishman” refer to MI6 agent, Joe Holderness, dragged back into the government ...Read Review
Then We Take Berlin
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This is really two stories, both centring on Berlin. The first begins in 1941 when John Holderness, commonly known as Wilderness, finds himself living ...Read Review
A Lily of the Field
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This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no ordinary murder/...Read Review
Bluffing Mr. Churchill
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Few events in modern times are as packed with historical drama as the London Blitz of 1940-1941. Confronted by an enemy whose forces ...Read Review
