Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express (Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries Book 14)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009H701TC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 186 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Eastbound ticket in hand, Rostnikov sets out to investigate. Meanwhile, his subordinates in Moscow tackle a female Jack the Ripper and an anti-Semitic punk rocker whose mob connections may have gotten him kidnapped. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone the way of the Czardom, and police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is trying to find his way in the Russia of Vladimir Putin. A Moscow cop juggles cases of kidnapping, murder, and a missing Czarist-era document in a modern-day mystery with “never a dull moment” (Library Journal). In the waning days
Kaminsky won the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1989 for the Rostnikov mystery A Cold Red Sunrise. Kaminsky must have had fun cooking up the plotlines, which ingeniously plunder the storage bins of mystery history. On top of that, in this 14th novel featuring the one-legged Moscow cop Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, Stuart Kaminsky once again catapults us straight from our armchairs into the mindset of modern Russia in all its perverse dysfunctions. --Otto Penzler. Reading Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
"Kudos from Dave" according to Dave Schwinghammer. In my humble opinion the Porfiry Rostnikov mystery series is the best one going. It rivals Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park for a realistic portrayal of Russia. Stuart Kaminsky's series may be better, though. Cruz Smith gave up writing about mother Russia after the Wall came crashing down. Kaminsky has done his research and he makes modern Russia one of the characters. The ensemble of human ch. Rostnikov doesn't get side tracked in this thriller! Billy J. Hobbs Stuart Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov series is firmlysettled in my list of favorite--and best--police proceduralmysteries.Along with Donna Leon, Ruth Rendell, Martha Grimes, and P.D.James, readers, who prefer this genre, cannot go wrong.In his latest thriller, Kaminsky's intrepid inspector finds himself almost on a wild-Russian-goose chase, clear across theSiberian tundra! In "Murder on the. Fantastic Richard Delman One of the best of the Rostnikov books, which is saying quite a bit. Thoroughly captivating, carefully researched, with characters so real and knowable that you almost feel you would know them if you happened to be walking down a Moscow street. Wonderful.