His superiors in the Moscow police force are suspicious of his Jewish wife, the black-market copies of his beloved Ed McBain 87th Precinct novels are getting tough to find, and his dreams of becoming a competitive weight-lifter are receding at a rapid clip. Then there's the famous dissident who's been murdered right before his trial.5/5(1). · In this mystery introducing a hard-boiled Soviet police inspector, “Kaminsky gets Russia right” (Ed McBain). Aleksander Granovsky has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the Russian penal system. In two days he will be tried for the crime of smuggling essays to the West. It is a show trial, and there is no doubt he will be convicted and executed, yet before he dies, he intends /5(2). "Death of a Dissident" was the first in a successful series of police procedurals by U.S. writer Stuart Kaminsky that were imaginatively set in Soviet Russia. Kaminsky did his homework and was careful to give his western readers clues to make sense of the many foreign elements of life in s Moscow/5(21).
AudioFile Audiobook Review: Reading an Inspector Rostnikov mystery is like being transported to Moscow to feel, smell, experience and endure Russian life. Kaminsky's characters i. Stuart M. Kaminsky began his Inspector Rostnikov series in with Rostnikov's Corpse (also known as Death of a Dissident). The series lasted 16 novels, concluding with 's A Whisper to the Living. Below is a list of Stuart M. Kaminsky's Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov books in order of when they were first released (which is. Stuart M. Kaminsky () was the author of fifty novels, including the Lew Fonesca mystery series and the Toby Peters mystery series. A former president of Mystery Writers of America, Kaminsky was a recipient of the Edgar Award and the Prix de Roman D'Aventure of France. He was also nominated for the Shamus and McCavity Awards.
In ’s Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in Stuart M. Kaminsky () was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, Kaminsky penned more than sixty novels over his lifetime. In 's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. Stuart M. Kaminsky Average rating: · 27, ratings · 2, reviews · distinct works • Similar authors Death of a Dissident (Porfiry Rostnikov, #1).
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