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    A Cold Red Sunrise

    By Stuart M. Kaminsky

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    In trouble with the KGB, Rostnikov is sent to investigate a death in Siberia.

    After three decades serving with the Moscow police, Porfiry Rostnikov is back at the bottom. When forced to choose between the law and the party line, he fights for justice -- a disturbing preference that has won him no friends at the Kremlin. Now his enemies in the KGB have transferred him to the lowest rungs of Moscow law enforcement, a backwater department assigned with only the most token murders. But, peculiarly, Rostnikov's newest assignment is no token at all.

    While in Siberia investigating the death of a dissident's daughter, a corrupt commissar is stabbed through the eye with an icicle. Finding his killer should be a top priority, yet the KGB hands it off to the disgraced detective. Someone doesn't want this murder solved, and there are people in Moscow who may be plotting to ensure Rostnikov does not live to see the end of this Siberian winter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784086008
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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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      Another 2013 discovery, as far as I'm concerned. Never heard of the guy, so everything came as total surprise. Sometimes it pays off to read something quite unexpected.

      I've been digging up all of the Edgar Awards. Before getting hold of the complete list, I thought I knew everyone there was to know on the Crime Fiction Scene. Not so.

      One of the things that surprised me was the portrayal of Siberia, which is quite mesmerizing. It captures an undeniably beautiful world frozen in time, not taking notice of the passing hordes of barbarians or Communists. Kaminsky is also wonderful at presenting the intrigue, the atmosphere and the complexities of Moscow during and after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

      The use of arctic for mysteries was relatively rare in the past, as far as I'm aware. Now we have Boris Akunin and the likes (Scandinavian Crime Fiction). In 1989 I don't remember anything remotely similar.

      I've been always a sucker for the use of "place" as a literary device. The setting, the place, the local geography in many cases is as important as the plot. It is fair to say that the geographical elements set these novels apart and account for a large part of their popularity. For me that's one of the explanations for the Scandinavian Crime Fiction recent popularity, which sometimes also uses the geography artifact as a character as well and to good advantage (vide Arnaldur Indridason's novels set in Iceland).

      There's something about these frigid landscapes that makes the Crime Fiction setting ideal for it.

      Stuart M. Kaminsky was not on my radar. Now he is. Rostnikov is also very fond of Ed McBain novels... What's there not to like about a guy like him?

      There was only two quibbles: Plot predictability and one of the sub-plots taking place in Moscow does not seem to add anything new to the novel.

      Now I've got to find out whether there are any more of these Rostnikov's novels out there."
    • 5/5
      I have been thoroughly enjoying my reread of the Inspector Rostnikov series of mysteries, but I must add that this particular entry is the best of the bunch. My rating might be partly based upon the author not identifying the murderer until the last few pages, and that the revelation of who killed the Commissar is a surprise, but not entirely: the author writes SO WELL, and his characters are old friends, well-developed, like-able. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      A well written whodunit in a Russian background with a subtle sense of humour..
    • 2/5

      Tedious in the beginning; faitly interesting in the middle; not very exciting by the end. Sorry, just not my cup of tea.

    • 5/5
      Here is what I want to say to the author: Dear Mr. Kaminsky, I love, LOVE , your Inspector Rostnikov series. But I am puzzled about one thing: on the one hand you seem to know very intimate details of Russian/Soviet life (and I should know - I am from there), and on the other hand - how come such evident mistakes in some simple Russian phrases, while more complicated ones are written correctly? I don't get it (Get a good Russian editor, Mr. Kaminsky!!!) Or the fact that a person is addressed as simply "Comrade" - no way, not in Gorbachev times, not since 1930s probably. You can address somebody "Comrade" with a name following, like Comrade Rostnikov, etc., but not just by itself - "Comrade". It is just not "Russian"-like. Or a wife calling her husband by his first name followed by his patronymic (e.g. "Alexander Ivanovich") - also, very false, a wife would never address her husband with the two names, just the first one.... I have to research on Stuart Kaminsky, his background, and what made him an expert on Russian/Soviet life - because most of it is so true, but then, again, such strange aberrations. Plus, in this edition of the book (Charles Scribner's Sons/ New York) even English text was poorly edited, I found quite a few mistakes in simple English words. I still love this series and will continue reading until I have read all its books. It has a certain appeal that makes me read on and on, despite the mistakes.--