Punishment of a Hunter by Yulia Yakovleva

Punishment of a Hunter by Yulia Yakovleva

1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to investigate a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless murders. In each case, the victim is curiously dressed and posed in extravagantly arranged settings. At the same time, one by one precious old master paintings are going missing from the Hermitage collection. As Zaitsev sets about his investigations, he meets with suspicion at practically every turn, and potential witnesses are reluctant to provide information. Soon Zaitsev himself comes under suspicion from the Soviet secret police. The embittered detective must battle increasingly complex political machinations in his dogged quest to uncover the truth.

“The miseries of the 1930s are vividly rendered in Punishment of a Hunter for an unsettling and gripping achievement”
--Crime Reads

“Outstanding... Yakovleva perfectly balances evoking the terror of living in a police state with her whodunit plotline. Fans of Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko will hope to see much more of Zaitsev.”
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Yulia Yakovleva is a writer, theatre and ballet critic, and playwright. She is the author of a nonfiction title, ABC of Ballet (NLO, 2006) and a series of fiction books for children, Leningrad's Tales. The first book in the children's series, The Stolen City, was shortlisted for the Yasnaya Polyana Award and won the In Other Words Award 2017 from BookTrust, who supported the English translation of the book, published by Penguin. Yakovleva received her MA from School of Creative Arts of the University of Hertfordshire. She lives in Oslo, Norway, with her husband and son.

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ISBN 13	9781782276791
ISBN 10	1782276793
Titel	Punishment of a Hunter
Autor	Yulia Yakovleva
Serie	A Leningrad Confidential
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pushkin Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-02-24
Seitenanzahl	400
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