The Stolen Heart : The Kyiv Mysteries - Signed First Edition

by Kurkov, Andrey | Historical mysteries
Published 27/02/2025 by Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) in the United Kingdom as part of The Kyiv Mysteries series
Hardback | 320 pages
240 x 156mm | 0g

Signed First Edition - Hardback - Publishes February 27th

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to 'reinforce' the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best.

Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the 'meat case' takes a back seat.

But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined.

Translated from the Russian by Boris DralyukReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize'Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre' New York Times'Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more' Guardian