Olga Pushkin – railway engineer and would-be bestselling author – spends her days in a little rail-side hut with only Dmitri the hedgehog for company. However, one day Olga arrives at her hut only to be knocked unconscious by a man falling from the Trans-Siberian Express, an American tourist with his throat cut from ear to ear and his mouth stuffed with 10-ruble coins. Another death soon follows, and Sergeant Vassily Marushkin, the brooding, enigmatic policeman who takes on the case, finds himself falsely imprisoned by his Machiavellian superior, Chief-Inspector Babikov. Olga resolves to help Vassily by proving his innocence. But with no leads to follow and time running out, has Olga bitten off more than she can chew?

Author Conor Farrington Published by Constable ISBN 9781472133137 EAN 9781472133137 Bic Code Cover Hardback