The first in a trilogy set in the Leningrad of 1951 where the shadows of the war and the threats of Stalinism loom large. Five blackened corpses are found neatly arranged between three parallel railway lines - the work of a crazed killer or the MGB?
The first in a trilogy set in the Leningrad of 1951 where the shadows of the war and the threats of Stalinism loom large. Five blackened corpses are f...
'A cleverly constructed thriller' Sunday Times 'A fantastically tense atmosphere, thickly spread with historical detail, makes this a spine-tingling page-turner' The Sun Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere - Koshchei has returned, the people say, Koshchei the Immortal. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines of what seems to be Italian verse. Three thousand kilometres away in a labour...
'A cleverly constructed thriller' Sunday Times 'A fantastically tense atmosphere, thickly spread with historical detail, makes this a spine-tingling p...
Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere - Koshchei has returned, the people say, Koshchei the Immortal. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines of what seems to be Italian verse.
Three thousand kilometres away in a labour colony above the Arctic Circle, threatened by the Thieves who rule the camp, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death. As...
Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere - Koshchei has returned, the people...
