num_pages: 369
description: Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily one premeditated death does land on the detective's desk. It is no abused lover or a distant sniper's victim but a government official - the chief of the interior ministry's police - shot dead at close range.In a thriller that recalls the first excitement of Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow and the Vienna of Graham Greene's The Third Man, author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war - the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and very lives - and he weaves through this torn cityscape one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of the wrong people in the worst places.
language: English
title: Lie In The Dark
titlecomplete: Lie In The Dark (Vlado Petric #1)
genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Detective, Historical, Crime, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 653
places: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
series: Vlado Petric
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger
publisher: Black Swan