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Death Of The Red Rider A Leningrad Confidential
Death Of The Red Rider A Leningrad Confidential
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Description: On the eve of Soviet purges Detective Zaitsev returns to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman the second installment in the ultimate noir detective series Perfect for fans of thrilling historical crime fiction Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels and Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept As the Red Terror gathers pace a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev still raw from his last brush with the Party is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk southern Russia to investigate. As he witnesses the horror of the Holodomor and the impact of Soviet collectivisation he struggles to penetrate the murky secretive world of the cavalry school. Why has this particular murder attracted so much attention from Soviet officials? Zaitsev needs to answer this question and solve the case before the increasingly paranoid authorities turn their attention towards him. Don t miss the second installment in the atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia where corruption informers and purges take paranoia to the next level.
Title: Death Of The Red Rider A Leningrad Confidential
Author(s): Yakovleva Yulia
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782276807
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/7/2023
Series: A Leningrad Confidential
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: On the eve of Soviet purges Detective Zaitsev returns to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman the second installment in the ultimate noir detective series Perfect for fans of thrilling historical crime fiction Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels and Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept As the Red Terror gathers pace a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev still raw from his last brush with the Party is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk southern Russia to investigate. As he witnesses the horror of the Holodomor and the impact of Soviet collectivisation he struggles to penetrate the murky secretive world of the cavalry school. Why has this particular murder attracted so much attention from Soviet officials? Zaitsev needs to answer this question and solve the case before the increasingly paranoid authorities turn their attention towards him. Don t miss the second installment in the atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia where corruption informers and purges take paranoia to the next level.
Title: Death Of The Red Rider A Leningrad Confidential
Author(s): Yakovleva Yulia
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782276807
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/7/2023
Series: A Leningrad Confidential
Category: Fiction In Translation