A Cold Red Sunrise

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrated by: John McLain

A Moscow cop is left out in the cold in this "impressive" Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Novel (The Washington Post Book World).

When forced to choose between the law and the party line, Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a disturbing tendency to fight for justice, and that has won him no friends at the Kremlin. Now his enemies in the KGB have arranged a transfer to the lowest rungs of Moscow law enforcement, a backwater department assigned to only the most hopeless cases, one of which is about to take Rostnikov deep into Siberia.

A corrupt commissar has been stabbed through the eye with an icicle. A murder at this level should be a top priority, but Rostnikov gets the distinct impression that the powers-that-be would prefer this case go unsolved - and that Rostnikov not survive this Siberian winter.

©1988 Stuart Kaminsky (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Well written

It was a little confusing to me with many characters ending with off or ov sounding names that all blurred together for me. But after repeating some chapters I think I kept it all straight. In this book the law officer had to make choices as he found there were shades of gray in the black and white system of right and wrong. Interesting book.

Beyond a mystery. Humanity.

Simply the finest mystery I have ever read. Kindness and humanity and insight into the human condition.