DMITRI AND THE MILK-DRINKERS: Book 1 - Softcover

Pearce, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008259356 ISBN 13: 9780008259358

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2017

Synopsis

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.

Tsarist Russia in the 1890s. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer, must deal with the disappearance of a well-connected young woman. She has been shipped off to Siberia, in one of the prison wagons outside the Court House. But is this a bureaucratic bungle or something more calculated?

On a journey to the furthest outposts of Russia, Dimitri’s search becomes horribly complicated. To unearth the truth in a treacherous world of Russian officialdom he is forced to make some strange allies, not least among them the redoubtable Milk-Drinkers...

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Review:

‘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

From the Back Cover:

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'

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0008259356
• ISBN 13: 9780008259358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208