The White Russian
In 1917 St. Petersburg, a city on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, chief inspector of the St. Petersburg police, investigates the brutal murders of a young couple--a nanny at the tsar's palace and a young American from Chicago--found stabbed to death on the ice of the river Neva, just outside the Winter Palace. By the author of The Master of Rain. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.