Flesh Wounds
by John Lawton
2020-12-29 21:54:07
A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yardâs Inspector Troy. An old flame has returned to Troyâs life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been ...
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A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yardâs Inspector Troy. An old flame has returned to Troyâs life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kittyâs amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner donât ruin her husbandâs 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 Londonâs 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 isnât 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 Troyâs own police force and into Troyâs own forgotten past? Flesh Wounds, a compulsively readable thriller, finds one of our most able storytellers at the height of his game. âThere 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 illuminate a vanished world.â âPublishers Weekly
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