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Flesh Wounds (The Inspector Troy Novels (3)) by John Lawton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Troy. An old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her husband's political career. But he also wants to know why Kitty has been spotted with Danny Ryan, whose twin brothers, in addition to owning one of London's hottest jazz clubs, are said to have inherited the crime empire of a fallen mobster. Before Rork can find out, he meets a gruesome end. And he isn't the only one: bodies have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to Troy's own police force and into Troy's own forgotten past? Flesh Wounds, a compulsively readable thriller, finds one of our most able storytellers at the height of his game. “There are characters based on (or at least inspired by) everyone from Frank Sinatra to Meyer Lansky, enough dismembered bodies to satisfy the most morbid imaginations and frequent flashes of sly wit and social conscience that illumin

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Author
John Lawton
Publisher
Grove Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780871136985
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Mystery, Historical Fiction
Rating
4.4 / 5 (414 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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