A Cold Red Sunrise
An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Pub Date Oct 16 2012 | Archive Date Dec 20 2012
Open Road Media | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Description
After three decades serving with the Moscow police, Porfiry Rostnikov is back at the bottom. When forced to choose between the law and the party line, he fights for justice—a disturbing preference that has won him no friends at the Kremlin. Now his enemies in the KGB have transferred him to the lowest rungs of Moscow law enforcement, a backwater department assigned with only the most token murders. But, peculiarly, Rostnikov’s newest assignment is no token at all.
While in Siberia investigating the death of a dissident’s daughter, a corrupt commissar is stabbed through the eye with an icicle. Finding his killer should be a top priority, yet the KGB hands it off to the disgraced detective. Someone doesn’t want this murder solved, and there are people in Moscow who may be plotting to ensure Rostnikov does not live to see the end of this Siberian winter.
Advance Praise
“The Ed McBain of Mother Russia.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Impressive. . . . Kaminsky has staked a claim to a piece of the Russian turf. . . . He captures the Russian scene and characters in rich detail.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko in Gorky Park.” —The San Francisco Examiner
“Stuart Kaminsky’s Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
“[Kaminksy] had an uncanny knack for summoning up the feel of cities and even lost eras, and doing so in a few details.” —Booklist
“Fortified by his love for weight lifting, Ed McBain novels, Russian plumbing and American pizza, the rotund Rostnikov perseveres, strong as a bull, lame in one leg and quite clearly nobody’s fool.” —Publishers Weekly
“Kaminsky takes care not to rob the beleaguered cops of their human core—a courtesy he also extends to Moscow, which comes across as a character in its own right: rough and dangerous and somehow tragic.” —The New York Times
“Kaminsky is one of the best. . . . Deliciously mordant.” —Publishers Weekly
“Sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers.” —The Washington Post Book World
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781453266366 |
PRICE | $0.00 (USD) |