A Little White Death - John Lawton

At the country home of a Harley street doctor, the illustrious, the notorious and the ambitious gather for a house party. The resulting trail of broken lives and dead bodies leads all the way to the crumbling core of the British establishment. This time Fitz's infamous ability to ' mix it' - class and race, sex and politics - is about to blow up in his face. Left to pick up the pieces is Russian emigre Commander Troy, now senior detective at Scotland Yard. Addicted to drugs after a brush with the white death - Troy is up to his neck in scandal, personally and professionally. And the English can be so unforgiving of a good scandal....

John Lawton is a degenerating misanthrope who lives in a remote hilltop village in Derbyshire. He is not entirely sure why. He likes T.C. Boyle, Chuck Palahniuk and Cormac McCarthy - and considers the seminal text of our time to be Myron by Gore Vidal. He is keen on the cultivation of the onion and obscure varieties of potato.