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"Yakovleva pick[s] up the torch from Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series”. — The New York Times“A superb read, with some unexpected turns right at the end."  — Crime Book of the Month, The Critic"Fascinating reading. . . This series has legs!" — Publishers Weekly On the eve of Soviet purges, De... Read More about Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad Confidential (The Leningrad Confidential Series #2)

“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 corrup... Read More about Punishment of a Hunter: A Leningrad Confidential (The Leningrad Confidential Series #1)

Phiscultura presents not just Katsuba's own work, color photographs of contemporary Russian athletes posed in Speedos and piled into gymnastic pyramids, but his inspiration, K. Bulla's late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of earlier generations of athletes, from the St. Petersburg... Read More about Valery Katsuba: Phiscultura