Death of a Dissident

Death of a Dissident is a gem of a mystery that represents only the tip of the talent iceberg for Stuart Kaminsky. Over his long and productive career, Kaminsky penned more than fifty published works. The scope of his crime fiction was remarkable. He juggled four very different series sleuths, the most complex of whom was Inspector Rostnikov, protagonist of Death of a Dissident. Set in Moscow, the debut Ratnikov novel demonstrates how Kaminsky captures the flavor of that city. This powerful sense of time and place is doubly remarkable because Kaminsky had never been to Russia before he wrote the book. His depictions of Rostnikov coping with a corrupt Moscow police force, underlying KGB pressures, and the overall inefficiencies of working in the then Soviet Union are dead-on. Death of a Dissident shows a master storyteller at his finest. --- from Publisher's Note