As a murder of a respected newspaper editor, followed by a second killing, shocks 1914 St. Petersburg, celebrated psychoanalyst Dr. Otto Spethmann, his young daughter, and his patients--Anna Petrovna, the society beauty with whom he is falling in love, and Rozental, a troubled chess master on the verge of a breakdown--find themselves pawns in a nightmarish game of political intrigue.
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Ronan Bennett grew up in Belfast. He is the author of four novels: The Second Prison, Overthrown by Strangers, The Catastrophist (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award), and Havoc, in Its Third Year (longlisted for the Booker Award). He has also written screenplays for film and television. He lives in London with his family.
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