A Cold Red Sunrise (An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery) - Softcover

Stuart M. Kaminsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080410428X ISBN 13: 9780804104289

Publisher: Ballantine Books/Ivy Books, 1989

Synopsis

One Dead Commissar

At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull.

One Live Cop

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death. Even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked.

One Cold Killer

In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB -- and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Stuart Kaminsky first came to my attention when he won the Edgar Award for A COLD RED SUNRISE, one of his novels starring Russian police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov. And when I devoured that novel, I went back to read the earlier titles in the series. Stuart is extremely prolific -- writing other series, short stories, non-series thriller novels (some of which have been made into movies); but the Rostnikov novels are really something special, and they have inspired critical comparisons with Martin Cruz Smith's GORKY PARK. So if you liked Arkady Renko in that wonderful thriller, then I can definitely recommend the Rostnikov novels to you.

--Joe Blades, Associate Publisher

From the Back Cover:

"As always, Kaminsky provides a colorful, tightly written mystery (he doesn't waste a word) filled with twists, countertwists and a surprise ending that is plausible and clever."

Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books/Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 080410428X
• ISBN 13: 9780804104289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213