Rent The Darkening Field

Synopsis

DIV"Readers will want to see more of Korolev, a weary but determined cop who puts justice ahead of Stalinist politics." —IPublishers Weekly DIV DIVt is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev of Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia is bound for Odessa after the suicide of Maria Alexandrovna Lenskaya, a young party member who supposedly had an illicit relationship with a party director. His instructions are to determine if her suicide was actually a cover-up, but under no circumstances reveal her close ties to the director.BRMaria was working on the set of a state-subsidized movie.  The pool of suspects is daunting, and while Korolev finds help from quarters both useful and ominous, none of them can make up for the one fact that he cannot discuss.RTrapped between the demands of the party and the truth, Korolev is one of the most intriguing figures in crime fiction.BR

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