Urban Sociology (Study in Sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Morris, R.N.

Social Sciences

Fresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society-a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find shocking. In the tradition of such first-rate historical novels such as The Alienist and The Dante Club, The Gentle Axe is atmospheric and tense storytelling from its dramatic opening to its stunning climax.

The Gentle Axe: A Novel (A Porfiry Petrovich Novel)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

The acclaimed author of The Gentle Axe returns with another atmospheric thriller starring investigator Porfiry Petrovich Hailed with glowing reviews , R. N. Morris's The Gentle Axe borrowed Porfiry Petrovich of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment to create a wholly new, hauntingly authentic novel of suspense. A Vengeful Longing, Petrovich's next outing, is even more engrossing. As the laconic investigator follows a trail that begins innocently with a box of chocolates, he is drawn deep into St. Petersburg's squalid heart. Aided by Morris's effortless prose, readers are immersed in the stifling world of nineteenth-century tsarist Russia and treated to an unforgettable rendering of a brutal time and place that will ensnare every fan of sophisticated historical fiction.

A Vengeful Longing: A Novel (A Porfiry Petrovich Novel)

A GENTLE AXE: ST PETERSBURG MYSTERY: A ST PETERSBURG MYSTERY

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Faber and Faber

A Gentle Axe

Penguin

The Gentle Axe: A Novel

Penguin Press HC, The

A Gentle Axe: St Petersburg Mystery

Literary

Red Hand of Fury, The (A Silas Quinn Mystery, 4)

Genre Fiction

Severn House

A series of bizarre suicides leads Detective Inspector Silas Quinn to revisit his own troubled past … June, 1914. A young man is mauled to death by a polar bear at London Zoo. Shortly afterwards, another young man leaps to his death from a notorious Suicide Bridge. Two seemingly unconnected deaths – and yet there are similarities. Following a third attempted suicide, DI Silas Quinn knows he must uncover the link between the three men if he is to discover what caused them to take their own lives. The one tangible piece of evidence is a card found in each of the victims’ possession, depicting a crudely-drawn red hand. What does it signify? To find the answers, Quinn must revisit his own dark past. But can he keep his sanity in the process?

British & Irish

Psychotopia

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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