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St Petersburg. Winter. 1867. Two frozen bodies are found in an isolated corner of Petrovsky Park. The first - that of a dwarf - has been packed neatly in a suitcase, a deep wound splitting his skull in two. The second body, of a burly peasant, is hanging from a nearby tree, a bloody axe tucked into his belt. The detective Porfiry Petrovich, in his first murder case since Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, suspects the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe. His investigation leads him from the squalid tenements, brothels and drinking dens of the city's Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society. Atmospheric and tense from its dramatic opening to its shocking climax.
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"A satisfyingly grisly yarn, mawkish and macabre. CSI: St. Petersburg"" -"The New York Times Book Review" ""The Gentle Axe" is a deftly plotted, enjoyable literary thriller." -"The Washington Post" "A smart, hypnotizing tale of crime and duplicity. . . . Genuinely pleasurable." -"The New York Sun" "Lush, and exceptionally compelling, but take your time-R. N. Morris's "The Gentle Axe" has a vast depth of Russian soul: mysterious, compassionate, and utterly irresistible." -Alan Furst, author of "The Foreign Correspondent" "The anti-Sherlock Holmes." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
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A Gentle Axe is a richly-textured historical crime novel that explores the darkest places of the Russian soul.
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- Publication date2007
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