Winter, 1953. Along with Sergeant Lidia Gerashvili, and Major Nikitin, the interrogator who once cut off Rossel's fingers, Rossel sets off on the trail of a murderer whose crimes surpass those of even the deranged tsar Ivan the Terrible. A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.
Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. Rossel must team up with Major Nikitin - the man who cut off virtuoso violinist Rossel's fingers - to hunt down the murderer.
Gruesome crime meets the secrets of the classical music establishment in the shadow of Stalinist Leningrad. For fans of Child 44, Joseph Kanon and Philip Kerr.