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Following in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed novel The Gentle Axe, offering the detective Porfiry Petrovich in another atmospheric and gripping slice of nineteenth-century Russia
It’s the center of a hot, dusty St. Petersburg summer time in the past due 1860s. A doctor brings home a expensive container of chocolates for his wife and boy—a peculiar gift on the sweltering Saturday day. In a hour, both mom and child pass away an excruciating loss of life, and the physician is immediately arrested, suspected of poisoning. As investigator Porfiry Petrovich concedes, in such instances the apparent solution often turns out to be the correct solution. And in the city’s steamy, oppressive atmosphere, even he lacks the power to delve any deeper.
However when further, apparently unconnected, murders arise on the other hand of town, a understated and surprising routine begins to emerge. Porfiry is obligated to reassess his assumptions and follow a tenuous, uncertain path that takes him in to the hidden, squalid heart and soul of the town and brings him face-to-face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty. A Vengeful Longing is a taut, enthralling enigma, a brilliant and utterly remarkable rendering of the brutal and stifling nineteenth- century St. Petersburg.
