Death of the Red Rider
A Leningrad Confidential
Published on 6. July 2023
400 pages
978-1-78227-681-4 (ISBN)
Description
Detective Zaitsev is back to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman in this atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia - for fans of Babylon Berlin and Boris AkuninOn the eve of the Great Purge, 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...
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07/2023
Pushkin Vertigo
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Yulia Yakovleva is a writer based in Oslo, Norway, who writes in Norwegian and Russian. Her books have received several international awards. Her first novel featuring Detective Zaitsev, Punishment of a Hunter, is also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
Content
- Intro
- PRAISE
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- EPILOGUE
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ALSO BY YULIA YAKOVLEVA
- AVAILABLE AND COMING SOON FROM PUSHKIN VERTIGO
- COPYRIGHT
