Kirjahaku

The first in a trilogy set in the Leningrad of 1951 where the shadows of the war and the threats of Stalinism loom large. Five blackened corpses are found neatly arranged between three parallel railway lines â?? the work of a crazed killer or the MGB?

Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. Rossel must team up with Major Nikitin â?? the man who cut off virtuoso violinist Rossel's fingers â?? to hunt down the murderer.

A Times 'Best New Thriller' for May 2022 'Enthralling . . . Sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit' Financial Times 'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' The Times 'A cleverly constructed thriller' Sunday Times 'A fantastically tense atmosphere . . . A spine-tingling page-turner' The Sun Leningrad, winter 1952. An invisible killer known as Koshchei - a nightmare of Slavic folklore - stalks the streets, leaving a distinctive and gruesome mark upon its victims.Three thousand kilometres away in a Gulag labour colony, threatened by the vicious criminals who rule the camp and tormented by the Arctic cold, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death.But then a brutal saviour descends from the skies: the state security interrogator who years ago ruined his life is back, tasking Rossel with tracking down the murderer.As the hunt continues, the two men uncover riddle after riddle, including a clue to finding a weapon of unimaginable power - a weapon the Kremlin's scheming plotters will kill for...

Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. Rossel must team up with Major Nikitin â?? the man who cut off virtuoso violinist Rossel's fingers â?? to hunt down the murderer.

** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER **'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial Times'Utterly compelling, both in its propulsive plotting and the dark and dangerously relevant themes it explores' Jake Arnott'You'll find yourself looking over your shoulder when you leave the house!' Trevor WoodWinter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an officer in the MGB secret police assures militia detective Revol Rossel. Now he knows it's murder.Only recently released from a brutal Siberian labour camp and determined to find his missing sister at last, Rossel wants nothing to do with this new case. But his alcoholic, broken superior officer, Captain Lipukhin, seizes upon it as his salvation - a last chance to be a true Soviet hero.Along with sharp-witted Senior Lieutenant Lidia Gerashvili, and Major Nikitin, the interrogator who once cut off Rossel's fingers, Rossel sets off on the trail of a murderer whose crimes surpass those of even the deranged tsar Ivan the Terrible. A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.There is only one eyewitness - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, whose giant right hand stretches out towards the frozen River Neva. Lenin, Rossel thinks, seems to be pointing at someone. But who?PRAISE FOR BEN CREED - THE TIMES 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' AND CWA GOLD DAGGER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' THE TIMES'Reminded me of Gorky Park, only I liked this tense, complex thriller even better'JAMES PATTERSON'Brilliantly orchestrated and totally engrossing' THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'A worthy successor to Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko' FINANCIAL TIMES'A fantastically tense atmosphere . . . A spine-tingling page-turner' SUN

** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER **'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial Times'Utterly compelling, both in its propulsive plotting and the dark and dangerously relevant themes it explores' Jake Arnott'You'll find yourself looking over your shoulder when you leave the house!' Trevor WoodWinter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an officer in the MGB secret police assures militia detective Revol Rossel. Now he knows it's murder.Only recently released from a brutal Siberian labour camp and determined to find his missing sister at last, Rossel wants nothing to do with this new case. But his alcoholic, broken superior officer, Captain Lipukhin, seizes upon it as his salvation - a last chance to be a true Soviet hero.Along with sharp-witted Senior Lieutenant Lidia Gerashvili, and Major Nikitin, the interrogator who once cut off Rossel's fingers, Rossel sets off on the trail of a murderer whose crimes surpass those of even the deranged tsar Ivan the Terrible. A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.There is only one eyewitness - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, whose giant right hand stretches out towards the frozen River Neva. Lenin, Rossel thinks, seems to be pointing at someone. But who?PRAISE FOR BEN CREED - THE TIMES 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' AND CWA GOLD DAGGER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' THE TIMES'Reminded me of Gorky Park, only I liked this tense, complex thriller even better'JAMES PATTERSON'Brilliantly orchestrated and totally engrossing' THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'A worthy successor to Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko' FINANCIAL TIMES'A fantastically tense atmosphere . . . A spine-tingling page-turner' SUN

Jotkin rikokset jättävät ikuisen arvenBen Creedin Aaveiden kaupunki on 1950-luvun Leningradiin sijoittuva tunnelmallinen trilleri hyisen talven pimeydessä vaanivasta murhaajastaRevol Rossel oli nuori ja vaikutusvaltainen viulistinero, kunnes traaginen onnettomuus tuhosi hänen taiteelliset unelmansa ja vei hänet etsiväksi Leningradiin, jota suuren sodan haamut edelleen painavat raskaina. Eräänä hyisenä talviaamuna kaupungin lähistöltä löydetään viiden ihmisen jäätyneet ruumiit rautatiekiskoille tarkasti aseteltuina.Murhia tutkiessaan Rossel joutuu keskelle uransa vaikeinta ja vaarallisinta tapausta, jonka jäljet johtavat Leningradin musiikkipiireihin ja jopa Kremlin vaikutusvaltaisimmille tasoille. Piireihin, jotka ovat hänelle entisestä elämästään hyvinkin tuttuja.Ben Creedin esikoistrilleri Aaveiden kaupunki johdattaa 1950-luvun Leningradiin jahtaamaan murhaajaa, jonka mieli on yhtä kylmä kuin kaupungin peittävä jäinen hanki.

Kukaan ei ole turvassa Leningradin kaduillaBen Creedin 1950-luvulle sijoittuvan Revol Rossel -jännärisarjan toinen osa Petturin sydän hyytää lukijan sisimpään saakka.Leningradin talvi vuonna 1952. Paikalliset kuiskivat näkymättömissä vaanivan pedon nimeä: Koštšei. Slaavilaisen kansantaruston mukaan nimetty murhaaja leikkaa irti uhriensa kielen ja sijoittaa sen tilalle heidän suuhunsa paperikäärön, jolle on kirjoitettu italiankielisiä runosäkeitä.Kolmentuhannen kilometrin päässä pohjoisella vankileirillä entinen poliisi Revol Rossel on lähellä jäätymiskuolemaa. Hänen pelastajakseen saapuu kuitenkin yllättäen vanha vihollinen majuri Nikitin, ja Rossel vapautuu jahtaamaan Leningradia piinaavaa murhaajaa. Yhdessä Nikitinin kanssa he törmäävät uusiin arvoituksiin sekä salaiseen koodiin, joka näyttää johtavan käsittämättömän tuhovoimaisen aseen luokse. Aseen, jonka vuoksi Kremlin valtaapitävät ovat valmiit tekemään mitä tahansa.Ben Creedin Petturin sydän on Revol Rossel -sarjan toinen osa, joka kiemurtelee syvälle salaliittojen verkkoihin ja tuo lukijan eteen Leningradin talveakin hyisemmän murhaajan.