R. N. Morris
Born in Manchester in 1960, R. N. Morris now lives in North London with his wife and two young children. His series of St. Petersburg novels revolving around the character of Porfiry Petrovich include A Gentle Axe, A Vengeful Longing, which was shortlisted for the 2008 CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Best Novel and was Highly Commended in the CWA Ellis Peters Prize for Best Historical Crime Novel in 2008. The third book A Razor Wrapped in Silk was published in 2010. He also wrote Taking Comfort which was published by Macmillan under the name Roger Morris in 2006.
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Books by R. N. Morris
The Cleansing Flames
R. N. Morris
Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the ...
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 ...
A Vengeful Longing
R. N. Morris
A Vengeful Longing is the sequel to R. N. Morris's highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe , once again featuring the brilliant detective Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment ...
A Gentle Axe
R. N. Morris
St Petersburg in the winter of 1866.
Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park - a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree ...
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