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    Rostnikov's Vacation
    Rostnikov's Vacation
    Rostnikov's Vacation
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    Rostnikov's Vacation

    By Stuart M. Kaminsky

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    Murder intrudes on a Moscow cop’s vacation: “Kaminsky’s Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written” (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
     
    Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is finding spring in Yalta to be quite lovely. Accompanying his wife, Sarah, as she gets much needed rest and recuperation after her surgery, reading American crime novels, and gazing at the Black Sea, the Moscow cop is reasonably content—even if his superiors did insist that he take this vacation. But his time off is destined to be short-lived. A former colleague with emphysema has come south to improve his health. Instead Georgi Vasilievich has dropped dead from what appears to be heart failure. The inspector is not so sure.
     
    The local officials want to sweep the incident under the rug. But it turns out Vasilievich was investigating a high-level military conspiracy. Rostnikov takes a look at his files, putting him on the trail of a gang of hardliners who refuse to give up the Soviet dream—and who will go to murderous lengths to ensure that perestroika never comes to pass.
     
    With his Edgar Award–winning Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov series, “Kaminsky takes care not to rob his beleaguered cops of their human core—a courtesy he also extends to Moscow, which comes across as a character in its own right: rough and dangerous and somehow tragic” (The New York Times).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781453273531
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    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) 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. His previous tie-in work includes two original Rockford Files novels.

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    • 4/5
      While on a forced vacation in Yalta, Inspector Rostnikov is frustrated by inactivity, until a former acquaintance and high-ranking official dies suddenly. The official cause of death is declared to be a heart attack, but Rostnikov knows better. And in Moscow, while Tkach is playing decoy for gangs that beat their victims almost to death, Emil Karpo ignores orders to trail the insane killer of a German tourist. Good, solid storytelling, plot twists, and more of the characters we have come to know so well.
    • 4/5
      I’ve been reading the Rostnikov novels in chronological order and love the trio of detectives who complement each other beautifully. I also enjoy the little set pieces / vignettes in different styles that surprise and delight. However, as I go along it seems that more and more typos are creeping in. It feels as if the paper books were scanned in and not properly checked. Not a major problem though and a bit of detective work on the part of the reader.
    • 4/5
      Rostnikov is interesting character. I feel as though I am getting some insight into the Russian personna
    • 3/5
      Wouldn't use this one as an introduction to the series. Falls a little flat.
    • 4/5
      Ah... Kaminsky's Inpector Rostnikov series... such a delight, always... Despite some gruesome crime scenes, unavoidable in a crime novel, it's a pleasure to read, I hope the author keeps them comin. I am still anticipating the few in the series that I haven't read...Even notwithstanding Kaminsky's bizarre and amusing tendency to sort of invent some of the Russian names, instead of giving his characters the typical Russian names (well, in the case of the protagonist Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov - it's not an unusual name..., while some others are pretty stunning), it's still a great pleasure to read.

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