num_pages: 213
description: One Dead CommissarAt an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull.One Live CopInspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death. Even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked.One Cold KillerIn a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB -- and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.
language: English
title: A Cold Red Sunrise
titlecomplete: A Cold Red Sunrise (Porfiry Rostnikov, #5)
characters: Porfiry Rostnikov
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Detective, Russia
ratings_count: 688
places: Tumsk
series: Porfiry Rostnikov
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books/Ivy Books