Witty and irreverent, this is the first in an irresistible crime series set in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s from the award-winning Michael Pearce.
Russia in the 1890s, and a window of reform opens up in the oppressive Tsarist legal regime. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent, is just the man to jump through it – but not before he has dealt with the mysterious disappearance of Anna Semeonova, a beautiful and well-connected young woman who, bizarrely, looks as if she has been shipped off by mistake to Siberia. Is this a bureaucratic bungle of enormous proportions, or something more calculated?
Dmitri reluctantly embarks on a journey to the furthest outposts of Russia, only to find his search for Anna becoming horribly complicated. He begins to suspect a sinister cover-up – but of what? To unearth the truth in the labyrinthine world of Russian officialdom is a tough task for even the most resourceful of men and Dmitri is forced to make some strange allies, not least among them the redoubtable Milk-Drinkers.
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‘Impeccable historical details ... enjoyable reading’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A wily protagonist and racing narrative combine for perfect entertainment’ Time Out
‘Ingeniously imagined and zestfully written’ Literary Review
Witty and irreverent, 'Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers' is the first in an irresistible new crime series set in Tsarist Russia from the award-winning Michael Pearce.
Russia in the 1890s, and a window of reform opens up in the oppressive Tsarist legal regime. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent, is just the man to jump through it – but not before he has dealt with the mysterious disappearance of Anna Semeonova, a beautiful and well-connected young woman who, bizarrely, looks as if she has been shipped off by mistake to Siberia, in one of the prison wagons. Is this a bureaucratic bungle of enormous proportions or something more calculated?
Dmitri is the one elected to find out. He reluctantly embarks on a journey to the furthest outposts of Russia only to find his search for Anna becoming horribly complicated. He begins to suspect a sinister cover-up – but of what? To unearth the truth in the labyrinthine world of Russian officialdom is a tough task for even the most resourceful of men and Dmitri is forced to make some strange allies, not least among them the redoubtable Milk-Drinkers.
“Ingeniously imagined and zestfully written.”
LITERARY REVIEW
“A wily protagonist and racing narrative combine for perfect entertainment.”
'TIME OUT'
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