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The Soviet Union is dead, and Russian society has been fractured into a thousand pieces. Through those cracks seeps the first serial killer in the country’s history, whose exploits send Moscow into a frenzy. As his colleagues hunt for the pipe-wielding maniac who’s killed forty women so far, police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov must depart for Havana to avoid an international incident.
First, Rostnikov must confront his fear of flying—or more specifically, flying on Russian airplanes. Assuming he lands safely in Havana, this case will require the utmost diplomacy. A Russian politician is accused of murdering a young Cuban woman. Rostnikov’s superiors want things wrapped up cleanly and quickly. Unfortunately, their man in Havana is about to discover there is nothing simple about this murder.
“In a style reminiscent of Martin Cruz Smith in Gorky Park, Kaminsky effectively transplants the police procedural to the fertile ground of ‘democratic’ Russia, where it blossoms anew . . . An excellent novel.” —Booklist
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- ISBN: 9781453273487
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- ISBN: 9781453273487
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Starred review from January 2, 1995
From the uncertainties that bear in modern Russia, Kaminsky (Death of a Russian Priest) continues to craft his crisp and thoughtful series featuring Moscow police inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov and the enduring cast that comprises his team. Featured here are mainly the lame, bullish Rostnikov, who still torments his rigid superiors and spends his spare time reading American crime paperbacks, and his large, gaunt and emotionally guarded assistant, Emil Karpo. Rostnikov is in Cuba with his Spanish-speaking deputy Elena Timofeyeva where their delicate investigation of the murder charges filed against a Russian national points them toward a vengeful Santeria. In Moscow, Karpo, tracing a serial killer who has taken 40 victims, wonders whether the absence of a discernible pattern in the murders may be a pattern in itself. Karpo, confronting the psyche of a murderer, is brought face to face with the demons lurking beneath his own forbidding surface. Rostnikov, untangling complex political knots, acts on an unwise impulse and has an important encounter of his own. Unlike the Soviet Union, this marvelous series shows no signs of coming apart. -
July 31, 1995
This continues Kaminsky's series of mysteries set in the contemporary Soviet Union, with Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov.
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