Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571241156
Published:
01.04.2010
No of pages:
480
A Razor Wrapped in Silk
R. N. Morris
St. Petersburg. 1870. A child factory worker is mysteriously abducted. A society beauty is sensationally murdered. Two very different crimes show up the deep fissures in Russian society during the late tsarist period. The first is barely noticed by the authorities. The latter draws the full investigative might of St Petersburg's finest, led by magistrate Porfiry Petrovich.
The dead woman had powerful friends - including at least one member of the Romanov family - so when the tsar’s notorious secret police become involved, it seems that both crimes may have a political - not to say revolutionary - aspect, which takes Porfiry inside the Winter Palace for a confrontation with the Tsar himself.
The usually incisive magistrate grows increasingly unsure what to believe, who to trust and how to proceed. His very life appears to be in danger, though from whom he can't be sure.
Vividly portraying the imperial Russian capital on the brink of upheaval, this richly atmospheric novel builds to a tense and explosive climax.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
Crime & Thrillers
Places:
St Petersburg
Genres & Themes:
Suspense;
Detectives;
Murder Mystery
Characters:
Porfiry Petrovich
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