Title: The Gentle Axe
Description: Fresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society—a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find shocking. In the tradition of such first-rate historical novels such as *The Alienist* and *The Dante Club*, *The Gentle Axe* is atmospheric and tense storytelling from its dramatic opening to its stunning climax.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Police, History, Saint petersburg (russia), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Russia
People: Porfiry Petrovich