The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries

Samson Kolechko Has Been Assigned A Most Perplexing Case - Though It Is Mostly Perplexing Because ItS Hard To Understand Why Selling The Meat Of OneS 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 FiancE Nadezhda Is Abducted By Striking Railway Workers Who Object To The Census SheS 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, ItS No Wonder The Meat Case Takes A Back Seat.But It Is In The Pursuit Of That Petty-Fogging, Seemingly Mundane Matter That SamsonS Fate Lies - And NadezhdaS Too, For The Two Are Inextricably Entwined.Translated From The Russian By Boris Draylukreviews For The Silver Bone - Longlisted For The International Booker PrizeAndrey Kurkov Is Often Called UkraineS Greatest Living Writer, And It Is A Gift For Crime Fiction Fans That He Writes In This Genre New York TimesWildly Enjoyable . . . A Glorious Aural Portrait Of A City In Dangerous Flux . . . I Finished The Silver Bone Wishing To Read More Guardian