Cleansing Flames
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Limited
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780571259151
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural; Fiction, crime; Saint petersburg (russia), fiction
Description: It's Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution. In the meantime, junior magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky plays a dangerous game of his own.