After seven years of chronicling the affairs of Chicago cop Abe Lieberman, Hollywood shamus Toby Peters and Sarasota process server Lew Fonesca (The Dead Don't Lie, 2007, etc.), Kaminsky returns to Moscow. This volume revisits estimable Chief Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, who's been dealt a cold case indeed-one that sends him to Siberia. In an old Siberian diamond mining town, strange and violent events are allegedly accompanied by a certain supernatural manifestation. Allegedly, my foot, chorus the locals. Dating back to the last century, a "little ghost girl" has been seen at least nine times by survivors left quaking in her wake. Hmm, says Rostnikov with patented unflappability: "She killed people?" The reply: "Let us say she was proximate when people died." Meanwhile, Fyodor Andreiovich Rostnikov is the half-brother from whom the detective has been estranged for 22 years-a half-brother and a suspect in a complex case involving murder, diamond smuggling, kidnapping and related malfeasances that the Porfiry Petrovich has been ordered to solve in nine days. Suffers a bit from subplot glut, but it's good to have the old campaigner, who looks like a bear and thinks like a fox, astutely sifting clues again in Kaminsky's 54th novel.
Inspector Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Russia. Known as "The Washtub," Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing (that is, disintegrating) Russia. Surviving pogroms and politburos, he has solved crimes, mostly in spite of the powers that rule his world. In People Who Walk in Darkness, Rostnikov travels to Siberia to investigate a murder at a diamond mine, where he discovers an old secret-and an even older personal problem. His compatriots head to Kiev on a trail of smuggled diamonds and kidnapped guest workers, and what they discover leads them to a vast conspiracy that not only has international repercussions but threatens them on a very personal level.
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People Who Walk in Darkness
Inspector Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Russia. Known as "The Washtub," Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing (that is, disintegrating) Russia. Surviving pogroms and politburos, he has solved crimes, mostly in spite of the powers that rule his world. In People Who Walk in Darkness, Rostnikov travels to Siberia to investigate a murder at a diamond mine, where he discovers an old secret-and an even older personal problem. His compatriots head to Kiev on a trail of smuggled diamonds and kidnapped guest workers, and what they discover leads them to a vast conspiracy that not only has international repercussions but threatens them on a very personal level.
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| BN ID: | 2940176859584 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 08/05/2008 |
| Series: | The Inspector Rostnikov Series |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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