Death of the Red Rider - A Leningrad Confidential

"Detective Zaitsev is back to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman in this atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia. On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush with the Party, is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk, southern Russia, to investigate. As he witnesses the horror of the Holodomor, and the impact of Soviet collectivisation, he struggles to penetrate the murky, secretive world of the cavalry school. Why has this particular 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 towards him."--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Yulia Yakovleva, Yakovleva Yulia
• Assisted by: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translation), Kemp Ruth Ahmedzai (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781782276807
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-680-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: A Leningrad Confidential; The Leningrad Confidential
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Historical mysteries, Russia, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Thrillers / Legal, Thriller / suspense fiction, Political / legal thriller, Historical crime and mysteries, USSR, Soviet Union