Murder at the Dacha

Senior Lieutenant Pavel Matyushkin has a problem. Several actually. Not the least of them is the fact that a powerful Soviet boss has been murdered and Matyushkins surly commander has given him an unreasonably short time frame to close the case.Then there is the KGB colonel who seems a bit too interested in the course of Matyushkins investigation... and Pavels womanizing office mate who gets involved with a subject of the case... and a series of petty burglaries that defy resolution... and of course Pavels complicated love interest who is as prickly as she is perceptive...In his debut Russian crime novel set in 1960s Moscow Alexei Bayer peels back the layers of late Soviet life to offer a vivid gripping tale of deception greed murder and a simple detective just trying to do his job.