A Vengeful Longing: A Novel
R. N. Morris,
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
ISBN: 1594201803
DDC: 823.92
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-06-12
Summary:
Following in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed novel The Gentle
Axe, featuring the detective Porfiry Petrovich in another atmospheric
and gripping slice of nineteenth-century Russia It’s the middle of a
hot, dusty St. Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor brings
home a fancy box of chocolates for his wife and son—a strange gift on
a sweltering Saturday afternoon. Within an hour, both mother and
child die an excruciating death, and the doctor is immediately
arrested, suspected of poisoning. As investigator Porfiry Petrovich
concedes, in such cases the obvious solution often turns out to be
the correct solution. And in the city’s steamy, oppressive
atmosphere, even he lacks the energy to delve any deeper. But when
further, apparently unconnected, murders occur on the other side of
town, a subtle and surprising pattern starts to emerge. Porfiry is
forced to reassess his assumptions and follow a tenuous, uncertain
trail that takes him into the hidden, squalid heart of the city and
brings him face-to-face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty. A
Vengeful Longing is a taut, enthralling mystery, a vivid and utterly
unforgettable rendering of a brutal and stifling nineteenth - century
St. Petersburg.
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