Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571259151
Published:
19.05.2011
No of pages:
480
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 surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution.
In the meantime, junior magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky plays a dangerous game of his own. Following a chance meeting with a man he suspects of being an arsonist, he volunteers to infiltrate a terrorist cell. But the young man’s loyalties appear divided, his motives conflicted. Will he track down the killers, or to use his position as a magistrate to further a cause with which he sympathises?
The issue comes to a head in a shocking and violent confrontation between two generations.
The Cleansing Flames
is the fourth book in R. N. Morris’s acclaimed series featuring the investigator from
Crime and Punishment
.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
Crime & Thrillers
Places:
Russia;
St Petersburg
Genres & Themes:
Suspense;
Detectives;
Murder Mystery;
Revolution
Characters:
Porfiry Petrovich
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