Death On The Volga

1996. Nick and Rosemary Storey are enjoying a river cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg when two British passengers from their excursion group are murdered apparently on return from a visit to Yaroslavl. The cruise line ask them to get statements from relevant British passengers before the ship docks in St Petersburg. Facing a curtain of lies and half-truths tales of hidden Nazi gold well-concealed Russian connections and unable to check much of what is said to them they have to rely on inconsistencies tweaking the Russian bear's tail and a bear trap to identify both a brutal killer and his paymasters not without risk to their own lives. Death on the Volga is the twenty-seventh book published in a series of detective stories set mostly in HM Customs & Excise by Richard Hernaman Allen a former Commissioner