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The Matryoshka Murders
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780984779970
Publisher: Calliope Press
Published: Jan 15 2015
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
January 1991. Leningrad is starving, freezing, and ready to explode. Crime is rampant. Soldiers roam the streets. Rumors of a coup whisper through every hallway.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Hennessey arrives for an international festival - but instead of gathering footage for her NYC course, she records something she was never meant to see: an officer with a scarred face speaking with a baby-faced civilian in the hotel bar. Her guidebook warns her: No filming the military.
Then a terrified 17-year-old girl named Sveta confides that she fears she will be killed.
Hours later, Kate and Sveta are abducted by a drunken cab driver and left to die in a frozen cemetery. Kate escapes. Sveta does not.
Was the attack random? Was Sveta the target? Or was Kate?
As Kate investigates, she uncovers a hidden world of LGBTQ+ persecution, underground cafés, psychiatric clinics, and a police force willing to silence anyone who threatens the state. A scar-faced KGB officer begins to follow her. A red-haired soldier appears everywhere she goes. And when her hotel burns, Kate realizes someone wants her dead - and her footage destroyed.
With her videotapes strapped to her body, Kate flees Leningrad. But the danger she escaped has followed her home.
A gripping political thriller of surveillance, identity, and courage, The Matryoshka Murders is perfect for fans of international suspense, Cold War intrigue, and female-driven mysteries.
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