Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad Confidential (The Leningrad Confidential Series)

Yakovleva, Yulia

ISBN 10: 1782276807 / ISBN 13: 9781782276807

Published by Pushkin Vertigo, 2023

Seller Inventory # IN-475931

Synopsis:

Praise for Punishment of A Hunter:

'The most successful retro-detective since Akunin' Literratura

'Gritty and gripping' Will Ryan

'It will pull you in and leave you breathless' Chris Lloyd

'Yulia Yokovleva's thrilling debut was a bestseller in her native Russia. It's not difficult to see why' The Times, Best New Crime Fiction

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On the eve of Stalin's deadly great purge, a rider and his horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad.

Weary detective Zaitsev, still reeling from his last brush with the Party, is dispatched to the soviet state cavalry school near Ukraine to investigate.

There he witnesses the horror of the man-made Holodomor Famine as he struggles to penetrate the murky, secretive world of the school.

Why has this murder attracted so much attention from Soviet officials? Zaitsev needs to answer this question and solve the case before the increasingly paranoid authorities turn their attention to him...

About the Authors: Yulia Yakovleva is a writer, theatre and ballet critic, and playwright. She was inspired to write Punishment of a Hunter by her love of St Petersburg, where she grew up. The novel subsequently became a bestseller in Russia.

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp translated literature from Arabic, German and Russian into English. Her work has been shortlisted for the Helen & Kirt Wolff Translator's Prize, The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the GLLI Translated YA Prize.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad ...
Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: paperback
Condition: New