A Vengeful Longing: A Novel - Hardcover

Morris, R. N.

3.52

262 ratings by Goodreads

9781594201806: A Vengeful Longing: A Novel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201803 ISBN 13: 9781594201806

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

A follow-up to The Gentle Axe finds nineteenth-century Russian investigator Porfiry Petrovich doubting an initial conclusion that a St. Petersburg doctor is responsible for his wife's and son's poisoning deaths when the case is tied to another murder across town. 20,000 first printing.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

R. N. Morris was born in Manchester in 1960 and now lives in North London with his wife and two children. He sold his first short story to a teenage girls�’ magazine while still a student at Cambridge University, where he read classics. Making his living as a freelance copywriter, he has continued to write, and occasionally publish, fiction. One of his stories, �“The Devil�’s Drum,�” was turned into a one-act opera, which was performed at the Purcell Room in London�’s South Bank. Another, �“Revenants,�” was published as a comic book.

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. Set in St. Petersburg in 1868, Morris's superb second novel to feature Porfiry Petrovich (after The Gentle Axe) puts the detective borrowed from Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment on the trail of a series of vile murders. When the wife and son of a doctor die after consuming a box of chocolates at their dacha, the obvious suspect is the morphine-addicted doctor. Then a shooting and a stabbing lead Petrovich elsewhere—to an elegant confectioner's full of pastries and possible revolutionaries as well as to the city's underworld. As Petrovich breaks in a new detective, the aptly named Pavel Virginsky, he introduces colleague and reader alike to the Russian capital and to the ills of the entire society. Morris captures this world with expert strokes, never content to merely peddle exotica, but making sure that his characters spring convincingly from their setting. While the person behind the crimes is a little unlikely, this novel stands out from a number of fine czarist-era mysteries—by Russians and foreigners alike—like a Faberg� egg at a yard sale. (June)
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.