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At Cache Road Credit Auto, a lot perched along Lawton's main commercial strip, a sign simply reads "Approved," with a check mark beside it.

At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates Chris Kirkham 2011

But even more than Lawton's storytelling skill, it's his gray-toned vision of postwar London that unifies the work.

Review of "A Lily of the Field," a thriller by John Lawton Gerald Bartell 2010

On a recent Saturday afternoon at Lawton's Central Mall, employees for the jewelry store were stopping anyone with buzz cuts who walked past the door.

At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates Chris Kirkham 2011

At Cache Road Credit Auto, a lot perched along Lawton's main commercial strip, a sign simply reads "Approved," with a check mark beside it.

At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates Chris Kirkham 2011

If the previous seven installments in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series haven't made the point adequately, the eighth, "A Lily of the Field," makes it again, and solidly: Lawton's thrillers provide a vivid, moving and wonderfully absorbing way to experience life in London and on the Continent before, during and after World War II.

Review of "A Lily of the Field," a thriller by John Lawton Gerald Bartell 2010

On a recent Saturday afternoon at Lawton's Central Mall, employees for the jewelry store were stopping anyone with buzz cuts who walked past the door.

At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates Chris Kirkham 2011

While the commission stopped short of recommending compulsory water metering in areas where water is in scarce supply, Lawton's own view was that every household should be fitted with a meter.

UK's shifting population placing environment under intense strain 2011

I'll invoke Lawton's novel to claim this post's relevance to international crime fiction.

Archive 2010-01-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010

It's not Lawton's or the new ownership's fault that Feaster grossly overpaid for O'Brien.

Canucks, Lightning swing four-player deal James Mirtle 2008

Throughout their interaction, the high points of their relationship are played back, including Lawton's inability to just kill Batman; Batman even offers to tell Lawton what that reason is, but Lawton will not be thwarted.

Comic musings for 1/31 Fred Perry 2007