Punishment of a Hunter - A Leningrad Confidential

"Outstanding... Yakovleva perfectly balances evoking the terror of living in a police state with her whodunit plotline. Fans will hope to see much more of Zaitsev." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The debut of the ultimate noir detective series: set in Stalinist Russia, riddled with corruption, informers, and purges that takes paranoia to the next level

Perfect for readers of John Banville, Philip Kerr, and Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept, and for fans of the international Netflix sensation Babylon Berlin

MURDER
>MAYHEM
>MISTRUST
>The resolute detective must battle an increasingly dangerous political situation in his dogged quest to find the murderer―and stay alive.

"Leads the hero (as well as the reader) through every circle of soviet hell, to a bright finale." --Medusa