Death of a Russian Priest, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Death of a Russian Priest, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Death of a Russian Priest

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2021

Synopsis

In the darkest hours of communist rule, Father Merhum fought to protect the sanctity of the Orthodox Church. Now the Soviet Union is gone, but the bureaucracy survives, and within it lurk men who would do anything to undermine the fragile new Russian democracy. Father Merhum is on his way to Moscow to denounce those traitors when he is struck with an ax and killed.

As police inspectors Porfiry Rostnikov and Emil Karpo dig into the past of this celebrated village priest, they uncover strange church secrets and a conspiracy to carry the vile corruption of the former regime on into the twenty-first century. But if they don't watch their steps, someone may need to say the last rites for them.

About Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.

Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on March 12, 2022

Stuart Kaminsky's Moscow detective Rostnikov has become a favorite in this genre. He's an older cop with a bad leg due to a war injury, immensely strong, principled, surrounded by the seismic changes brought to Russia by Perestroika. Rostnikov is not what you'd call a hard-charger- he's more of a th......more

Goodreads review by Alan on October 05, 2013

Stuart Kaminsky won the Edgar for A Cold Red Sunrise, but I think this book is much better. Again, what Kaminsky excels at is not so much the mystery end of writing (he is probably average at that). Kaminsky makes the reader feel that they are in a Russia, in this case Moscow and Arkush, that is und......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 18, 2023

Those were heady times for the West as the old Soviet Union crumbled before our eyes. Gorbachev’s reforms. The fall of the Berlin Wall. The old guard coup that failed. Then the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself, the rise of Boris Yeltsin, and the free market reforms. For us, the changes were ex......more

Goodreads review by Delphine Lucas on July 27, 2022

This book had so much potential and such interesting characters. I also loved the premise of the story’s setting, a mystery set during the Yeltsin period. That being said, there was so much wrong in the book. First of all, nuns do not say the rosary in the Orthodox Church. That is a Roman Catholic p......more

Goodreads review by Willie on February 07, 2020

As a fan of Kaminsky, I was saddened by his death last year. After reading his Abe Lieberman and Lew Fonesca stories, I started his Inspector Rosnikov stories and have been working my way through them. I have come to know the characters in these books and to enjoy them and recommend them to anyone in......more

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