The White Russian by Tom Bradby

 The White Russian by Tom Bradby

January 1917With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the citys chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned a grisly case: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen River Neva, just outside the Tsars Winter Palace. Ruzskys investigation leads him dangerously close to the royal family and to the woman he loves, and he finds himself confronting both a ruthless killer and the ghosts of his past as he fights desperately to save all that he cares for. 

With meticulous research and narrative skill Tom Bradbybrilliantly re-creates the gilded salons and squalid tenements of St. Petersburg in the last days of the tsars. Evocative and thrilling, The White Russian is a tumultuous story of murder and betrayal in a city at the crossroads of history.