by R.N.Morris (Author)
It's the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor's wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden, squalid heart of the city, he is brought face to face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty, in this vivid rendering of a brutal and stifling nineteenth-century St Petersburg.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0571232523
ISBN 13: 9780571232529
Book Overview: A Vengeful Longing by R. N. Morris is the sequel to A Gentle Axe, featuring Crime and Punishment's detective Porfiry Petrovich in another gripping Russian murder story.