A Lily of the Field: An Inspector Troy Novel

Spanning the tumultuous years of 1934 to 1948, John Lawton¿s A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two charactersamp;mdash;Méret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel¿s start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. In his seventh Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets …