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1) Gorky Park
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Series
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English
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Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.
3) Red Square
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Communist party is dead; the ruble is worthless. As Moscow collapses around Arkady Renko, he escapes to Germany only to find the Russian mafia already on hand, enjoying the country's good beer, driving BMWs through the Brandenburg Gate, and searching murderously for Investigator Renko.
5) Tatiana
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Series
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English
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Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord....
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Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 12
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his colleagues on the Moscow police force battle rival gangs while trying to rid the capital of a new form of entertainment-- dog fights. A look at crime in post-communist Russia.
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and Emil Karpov lead an investigation for clues that might link the disappearance of a cosmonaut, the theft of the negatives of a Russian epic film, and the murder of the director of a center for paranormal research.
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Series
[Arkady Renko novel] volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a prosecutor's refusal to give him work, investigator Arkady Renko of Moscow finds his efforts to watch out for a teen chess prodigy challenged by a case involving a kidnapped baby, a dead prostitute, and police corruption.
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 5
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
At 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.
10) Hard currency
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 9
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov of the Moscow police goes to Cuba to investigate a Russian engineer, accused of killing a Cuban woman. The probe requires some tricky footwork to avoid being sucked into local intrigues. By the author of Death of a Russian Priest.
11) A fine red rain
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
Moscow's top cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There's Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There's young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there's Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 2
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Built in the twilight of the Tsarist state, Moscow's Metropole Hotel is a poignant reminder of the decadence of the last regime. But today its corridors are musty, its rooms are dank, and now its restaurant is the scene of a quadruple murder. To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigationover to famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov. A terrorist is targeting foreigners to embarrass the Soviet state, and the...
13) Blood and rubles
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 10
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce, blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge, and a trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva joins...
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Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 6
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
A naked bearlike man bursts into Rostnikovs wifes hospital room with a shocking story about a devil invading his shoe factory. Intrigued, Rostnikov investigates and plunges into a mysterious criminal scene of such depth that the chief inspector stoops to committing a crime of his own. Meanwhile, a frantic woman tells headquarters of her own sons imminent felony against the politburo....A Moscow bus and its driver mysteriously...
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 1
Publisher
Armchair Detective Library
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of a show trial, a Soviet dissident is stabbed through the heart. On a frigid night in silent Moscow, Aleksander Granovsky paces the floor of his government flat. He has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the Russian penal system, and in two days he will be tried for the crime of smuggling essays to the West. Granovsky is drafting a speech to deliver in court when an assassin appears and pierces his heart with the point of...
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Penzler Pick, December 2001: This is a compulsively readable tour de force that keeps more balls in the air than a pitching machine. On top of that, in this 14th novel featuring the one-legged Moscow cop Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, Stuart Kaminsky once again catapults us straight from our armchairs into the mindset of modern Russia in all its perverse dysfunctions. Kaminsky must have had fun cooking up the plotlines, which ingeniously plunder the...
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Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's...
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