A Vengeful Longing
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
A Vengeful Longing
By (Author) R. N. Morris
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
8th January 2009
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger 2008
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
267g
Description
It's the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor's wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden, squalid heart of the city, he is brought face to face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty, in this vivid rendering of a brutal and stifling nineteenth-century St Petersburg.
Author Bio
Born in Manchester in 1960, R.N. Morris now lives in North London with his wife and two young children. A Vengeful Longing follows A Gentle Axe in a series of St Petersburg novels revolving around the character of Porfiry Petrovich. Taking Comfort was published by Macmillian under the name Roger Morris in 2006.
