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Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 14 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (226 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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In this mystery introducing a hard-boiled Soviet police inspector, "Kaminsky gets Russia right" (Ed McBain). Aleksander Granovsky has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the Russian penal system. In two days he will be tried for the crime of smuggling essays to the West. It is a show trial, and there is no doubt he will be convicted and executed, yet before he dies, he intends to tell the truth one more time. But this is Moscow, where...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 18 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (242 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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A Soviet cop stars in this novel of "sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers" ( The Washington Post Book World ). The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men—one American, one Japanese, and two Russians—will all be dead by morning,...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 07 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (208 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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This thrilling crime novel features "the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko" ( San Francisco Examiner ). After a lifetime in service to the Soviet Union, police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov may have found a way out. A high-profile homicide leads him to a cache of documents packed full of incriminating Kremlin gossip, which he uses as a bargaining chip to secure exit visas for himself and his Jewish wife....
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 34 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (194 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Tension runs high as a Moscow cop investigates murder under the big top—from the Edgar Award–winning "Ed McBain of Mother Russia" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Porfiry Rostnikov was one of the top detectives in Moscow—until he crossed the KGB. On the orders of the secret service, this bulldog cop is busted down to the minor crimes unit, where his talents are utterly wasted. When a drunk climbs the statue of Nikolai Gogol in Arbat Square...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 34 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (222 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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A Moscow cop is left out in the cold in this "impressive" Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Novel ( The Washington Post Book World ). When forced to choose between the law and the party line, Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a disturbing tendency to fight for justice, and that has won him no friends at the Kremlin. Now his enemies in the KGB have arranged a transfer to the lowest rungs of Moscow law enforcement, a backwater department...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 04 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (214 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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This "superb mystery-thriller" featuring a Moscow cop reminiscent of Arkady Renko delivers "riveting suspense" ( Publishers Weekly ). Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife Sarah have been in love for decades, since the end of World War II. Now the police inspector is by his wife's bedside as she recuperates from a brain operation, when a massive naked man staggers into her hospital room, scared out of his mind, and tries to jump out the window. Rostnikov...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 23 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (200 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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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...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 53 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (230 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"Never miss a Kaminsky book, and be especially sure not to miss Death of a Russian Priest ." —Tony Hillerman, New York Times –bestselling author In the darkest hours of communist rule, Father Merhum fought to protect the sanctity of the Orthodox Church. Now the Soviet Union is gone, but the bureaucracy survives, and within it lurk men who would do anything to undermine the fragile new Russian democracy. Father Merhum is on his way...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 32 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (244 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"Kaminsky gets Russia right, and Cuba right, but best of all he gets his superb cop Rostnikov altogether right yet another time. Bravo!" —Ed McBain The Soviet Union is dead, and Russian society has been fractured into a thousand pieces. Through those cracks seeps the first serial killer in the country's history, whose exploits send Moscow into a frenzy. As his colleagues hunt for the pipe-wielding maniac who's killed forty women so far,...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (540 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (261 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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In an era of financial free-for-all in Russia, a Moscow cop deals with rampant crime in a "terrific" and "exceptional" police drama ( Detroit Free Press ). It's the mid-nineties, and capitalism and privatization have come to Russia. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia is on the rise. Newfound democracy has not reduced the crime rate, and Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a forty-year...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 16 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (277 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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In the Edgar Award–winning crime series featuring a veteran Moscow cop, "Kaminsky evokes Russian life like a born Muscovite" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ). During the widespread corruption of the Yeltsin era, violent crime has risen in Moscow by 200 to 300 percent, keeping Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his team at the Office of Special Investigation busier than ever. So it's fortunate that having his bad leg amputated six months ago and...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 12 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (455 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Moscow's gone to the dogs in the "imaginative" Edgar Award–winning crime series about a conscientious Russian cop ( The New York Times Book Review ). With packs of stray wild canines roaming Moscow, it was inevitable that enterprising criminals would find a way to get rich. As dogfighting became big business, the Mafia got involved, and venues upgraded from alleys and garages to private arenas with padded seats. Police Inspector Porfiry...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 03 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (288 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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With his Edgar Award–winning series about a Moscow cop, "Kaminsky's a master of tone, maintaining the edgy excitement of suspense" ( The Washington Post ). In the 1960s, Russian children wanted to be cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. But the Soviet Union is history, and Gagarin's glory is long gone. For the men and women aboard the decaying Mir space station, life is an unending series of near-disasters. During one...
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2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 19 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2012 | Hoopla | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | 1 online resource (288 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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A Moscow cop juggles cases of kidnapping, murder, and a missing Czarist-era document in a modern-day mystery with "never a dull moment" ( Library Journal ). In the waning days of the Russian Empire, the Czar inked a secret treaty with Japan that was stolen en route by one of the workmen on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone the way of the Czardom, and police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is trying...
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1 of 1 | Bemis Fiction | FICTION KAMINSKY |
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2008 | 1st hardcover ed | Forge | 287 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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2009 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 52 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov travels to Siberia to investigate a murder at a diamond mine, where he discovers an old secret...and an even older personal problem. His compatriots head to Kiev on a trail of smuggled diamonds and kidnapped guest workers....and what they discover leads them to a vast conspiracy that not only has international repercussions but threatens them on a very personal level.
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1 of 1 | DC Hotchkiss Adult Fiction | F KAMINSKY |
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2010 | 1st ed | Forge | 256 pages ; 22cm | Available from another library
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2010 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 56 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, and his team search for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims while protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring that produces leads to a high-level source seemingly beyond Rostnikov's reach.