The Stolen Heart

Andrei Kurkov

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to 'reinforce' the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best. Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the 'meat case' takes a back seat. But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined.

Author(s): Kurkov, Andrei
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 12/03/2026
Pagination: 315 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Published By: MacLehose Press
Book Classification: Historical mysteries
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 14
Weight: 220
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781529426540