Read Series: Inspector Troy
by Author John Lawton
A Little White Death (1999)
Inspector Troy returns in this thriller set in 1963 - the year of the Profumo scandal, Kim Philby's defection and Harold Macmillan's resignation. Fighting ill-health, Troy finds his past catching up with him following a British traitor's defection to Moscow from Beirut.
Black Out (2002)
In the tradition of John le Carré, Eric Ambler, and more recently, Joseph Kanon, Black Out is a stunning wartime thriller. As the Luftwaffe makes its last, desperate assaults on the battered city in 1944, Londoners take to the underground shelters amidst the black out. Detective-Sergeant Troy sta...
Second Violin (2007)
1940. London is under siege by German bombers - and its own prejudices and paranoias. The last thing Troy wanted was to be seconded to Special Branch to round up 'enemy' aliens.