A Cold Red Sunrise

✍ Scribed by Kaminsky, Stuart M.

• Book ID: 108064536
• Publisher: MysteriousPress
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 107 KB
• Series: Inspector Rostnikov 5
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate--murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one strange caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death, even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked. In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB--and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, Kaminsky penned more than sixty novels over his lifetime. In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

"Impressive...Kaminsky has staked a claim to a piece of the Russian turf . . . He captures the Russian scene and character in rich detail." --The Washington Post Book World

"As always, Kaminsky provides a colorful, tightly written mystery (he doesn't waste a word) filled with twists, countertwists and a surprise ending that is plausible and clever." --Chicago Tribune

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