St Petersburg. 1993. In the chaos that follows the collapse of the old order, Grushko investigates the assassination of a leading journalist. The case uncovers levels of brutality, deviousness and corruption that touch even his own department - and puts him on a collision course with black marketeers and the mafia. "This work has all the halmarks of a Russian novel, a Chandler version of Turgenev, funny, grim, insightful, precise." (Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph.)