The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries

Description

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case – though it is mostly perplexing because it”s hard to understand why selling the meat of one”s own pig constitutes a crime.

But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to “reinforce” the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent – if diffident – best.

Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she”s carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it”s no wonder the “meat case” takes a back seat.

But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson”s fate lies – and Nadezhda”s too, for the two are inextricably entwined.

Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

Reviews for The Silver Bone – Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

“Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine”s greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre” New York Times

“Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more” Guardian