Murder intrudes on a Moscow cop’s vacation: “Kaminsky’s
Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written” (The
San Diego Union-Tribune). Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is finding
spring in Yalta to be quite lovely. Accompanying his wife, Sarah, as
she gets much needed rest and recuperation after her surgery, reading
American crime novels, and gazing at the Black Sea, the Moscow cop is
reasonably content—even if his superiors did insist that he take
this vacation. But his time off is destined to be short-lived. A
former colleague with emphysema has come south to improve his health.
Instead Georgi Vasilievich has dropped dead from what appears to be
heart failure. The inspector is not so sure. The local officials
want to sweep the incident under the rug. But it turns out Vasilievich
was investigating a high-level military conspiracy. Rostnikov takes a
look at his files, putting him on the trail of a gang of hardliners
who refuse to give up the Soviet dream—and who will go to murderous
lengths to ensure that perestroika never comes to pass. With his
Edgar Award–winning Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov series, “Kaminsky
takes care not to rob his beleaguered cops of their human core—a
courtesy he also extends to Moscow, which comes across as a character
in its own right: rough and dangerous and somehow tragic” (The New
York Times).
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ISBN
9781453273531
Publisert
2017
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Vendor
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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