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: 321
Edition: Export e.
Publisher: Faber
Published: 06 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 0571232531
ISBN 13: 9780571232536
Book Overview: The sequel to the brilliant A Gentle Axe, featuring Crime and Punishment's detective Porfiry Petrovich in another gripping Russian murder story.