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Second Violin

✍ Scribed by John Lawton

Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
276 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

**As London braces for WWII, a string of murdered rabbis draws Inspector Troy into a mystery that "**sets pulses racing and the jaded responses tingling" (Irish Times).

One of today's top historical espionage writers, considered "as good as Le Carré" (Chicago Tribune) and "a master" (Rocky Mountain News), John Lawton adds another spellbinding thriller to his Inspector Troy series with Second Violin.

The sixth installment in the series, Lawton's new novel opens in 1938 with Europe on the brink of war. In London, Frederick Troy, newly promoted to the prestigious murder squad at Scotland Yard, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian "enemy aliens" that also includes his brother, Rod, who learns upon receiving an internment letter that he was born in Austria despite having grown up in England. Hundreds of men are herded by train to a neglected camp on the Isle of Man. And as the bombs start...

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