Name: Rostnikov's Vacation

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Mystery
Culture: Russia

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9780684190228
0684190222		 In the faltering Soviet Union, the KGB will do anything to hold on to power A Jewish man in a squalid government flat finds a killer in his shower. A young punk girl hurtles naked through the window of her apartment. And in the Crimea, at a health retreat for mid-level functionaries, an aging policeman'€™s death is made to look like heart failure. It'€™s this last murder that catches Porfiry Rostnikov'€™s attention. The inspector'€™s wife is recovering from brain surgery, and his superiors at the Moscow police insist he accompany her to the Crimea. There he meets Georgi Vasilievich, a former colleague suffering from emphysema, a bad heart, and an inability to stop working. He is investigating a high-level conspiracy when he dies, and Rostnikov inherits the case, putting him on the trail of a gang of hardline security men who refuse to give up the Soviet dream'€”and who will go to murderous lengths to ensure that perestroika never comes to pass.
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"People Who Walk In Darkness"
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"Fall of a Cosmonaut"
First published in 2000
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"Hard Currency"
First published in 1995
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"Death of a Russian Priest"
First published in 1992
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"The Man Who Walked Like a Bear"
First published in 1990
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"A Cold Red Sunrise"
First published in 1988
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"A Fine Red Rain"
First published in 1987
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"Red Chameleon"
First published in 1985
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"Black Knight in Red Square"
First published in 1984
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"Death of a Dissident"
First published in 1981
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"Tarnished Icons"
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"Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express"
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