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Overview

The acclaimed author of The Gentle Axe returns with another atmospheric thriller starring investigator Porfiry Petrovich

Hailed with glowing reviews , R. N. Morris's The Gentle Axe borrowed Porfiry Petrovich of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment to create a wholly new, hauntingly authentic novel of suspense. A Vengeful Longing, Petrovich's next outing, is even more engrossing. As the laconic investigator follows a trail that begins innocently with a box of chocolates, he is drawn deep into St. Petersburg's squalid heart. Aided by Morris's effortless prose, readers are immersed in the stifling world of nineteenth-century tsarist Russia and treated to an ...

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Overview

The acclaimed author of The Gentle Axe returns with another atmospheric thriller starring investigator Porfiry Petrovich

Hailed with glowing reviews , R. N. Morris's The Gentle Axe borrowed Porfiry Petrovich of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment to create a wholly new, hauntingly authentic novel of suspense. A Vengeful Longing, Petrovich's next outing, is even more engrossing. As the laconic investigator follows a trail that begins innocently with a box of chocolates, he is drawn deep into St. Petersburg's squalid heart. Aided by Morris's effortless prose, readers are immersed in the stifling world of nineteenth-century tsarist Russia and treated to an unforgettable rendering of a brutal time and place that will ensnare every fan of sophisticated historical fiction.

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Set in St. Petersburg in 1868, Morris's superb second novel to feature Porfiry Petrovich (after The Gentle Axe) puts the detective borrowed from Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment on the trail of a series of vile murders. When the wife and son of a doctor die after consuming a box of chocolates at their dacha, the obvious suspect is the morphine-addicted doctor. Then a shooting and a stabbing lead Petrovich elsewhere-to an elegant confectioner's full of pastries and possible revolutionaries as well as to the city's underworld. As Petrovich breaks in a new detective, the aptly named Pavel Virginsky, he introduces colleague and reader alike to the Russian capital and to the ills of the entire society. Morris captures this world with expert strokes, never content to merely peddle exotica, but making sure that his characters spring convincingly from their setting. While the person behind the crimes is a little unlikely, this novel stands out from a number of fine czarist-era mysteries-by Russians and foreigners alike-like a Fabergé egg at a yard sale. (June)

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Morris (The Gentle Axe, 2007) again resurrects police inspector Porfiry Petrovich from Crime and Punishment for a second rousing crime mystery. The story bursts open with a poisoned box of chocolates and the violent deaths of Raisa and Grisha Meyer, wife and son of Dr. Martin Meyer, a reclusive opium-eater. On his strained first day at the job, opinionated, idealistic Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky begins an apprenticeship under the older, wiser Porfiry Petrovich, and together they dispatch to the crime scene. The case appears to be open-and-shut, but in the following days, amidst the stifling heat and stench of drab, gray 19th-century St. Petersburg, a series of curious, seemingly unrelated murders occur. With mounting evidence tying the crimes to an insurrectionist cell plotting against the Tsar, a labyrinthine web of evidence begins to unravel. Each new lead becomes a dead-end, but the coincidences-so various, yet so exact-eventually lead the policemen toward the culprit. Richly colorful and alive, Morris's characters brim with texture, whether they are hard-nosed cops or seasoned prostitutes, cantankerous slumlords or bespectacled bureaucrats. None escape the piercing intellect of Petrovich, who opens every individual's closet of vice and hypocrisy. Forcing all to admit their deepest shames, he provides them a psychological conduit for personal revelation and redemption. Equally powerful (and parallel) to this Virgil-like probe of the human psyche are Petrovich and Virginsky's forays into the city's deepest shames: a hospital for the mentally insane and a tenement infected with cholera, where the only sounds are that of wailing for the dead. Musing on questions of love, regret, misery,injustice, disillusionment, etc., Morris seamlessly and brilliantly segues from intensely grave to laugh-out-loud funny. Provocative, satirical insights into humanity's darker corners.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594201806
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/12/2008
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.24 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

R. N. Morris was born in Manchester in 1960 and now lives in North London with his wife and two children. One of his stories, "The Devil's Drum," was turned into a one-act opera, which was performed at the Purcell Room in London's South Bank. Another, "Revenants," was published as a comic book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 1, 2008

    Morris does it again

    R.N. Morris continues to captivate Dostoyevsky's Detective Magistrate Porfiry Petrovich 'Crime and Punishment' career in St. Peterburg. In the 'Gentle Ax' I was amazed Morris pulled it off without ruining the original incarnation. To pull it off, as Morris has in 'A Vengeful Longing', is simply astounding. Morris doesn't just tell us another story about Petrovich. He builds on him. After reading Morris' take on Petrovich, it was immense fun to reread 'Crime and Punishment'

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2008

    A Vengeful Longing

    It was with trepidation that I started on R. N. Morris' book. After all, his hero is borrowed from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment, which I endured with gritted teeth as a literature undergraduate. But Morris' take on investigating magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is surprisingly readable, and his portrait of the seedier side of 1860s St Petersburg, sweltering in the heat of summer, is rather entertaining. Petrovich, the dogged antagonist to Dostoyevsky's angsty protagonist Raskolnikov, is drolly weary here. Exasperated by poor sanitation in the city, tormented by his haemorrhoids and smoking endless cigarettes, he is hot on the trail of two seemingly open-and-shut cases. A suburban wife and her handicapped son die horribly after ingesting poisoned chocolates and a philandering soldier is shot dead by, apparently, an avenging father. The fun here is not so much thw whodunnit but the colourful cast of characters and the vivid vignettes of a Tsarist city conjured by Morris. In fact, hardcore murder mystery fans might be a tad exasperated by the ambling pace of the investigation. But for readers looking for a literary jaunt with better than average style and sass, this detour delivers a fairly scenic route.

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