A Razor Wrapped in Silk: A Porfiry Petrovich Mystery (St Petersburg Mysteries Series Book 3)
– Learn MoreAutumn, St Petersburg, 1870.
A child factory worker is mysteriously abducted. A society beauty is sensationally murdered.
These two very different crimes show up the deep fissures in Russian society of the late tsarist period.
The former is barely noticed by the authorities. The latter draws the full investigative might of St Petersburg’s finest, led by magistrate Porfiry Petrovich.
The dead woman had many powerful friends, including at least one member of the Romanov family.
And when the tsar’s notorious secret police become involved, it seems that most crimes may have a political – not to say revolutionary aspect.
The investigation takes Porfiry inside the Winter Palace for a confrontation with the tsar himself.
The usually incisive magistrate grows increasingly unsure what to believe, who to trust and how to proceed. His very life appears to be in danger, though from whom he can’t be sure.