Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers (Dmitri Kameron Mystery, Book 1)

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Witty and irreverent, this is the first in an irresistible crime series set in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s from the award-winning Michael Pearce.
Tsarist Russia in the 1890s. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer, must deal with the disappearance of a well-connected young woman. She has been shipped off to Siberia, in one of the prison wagons outside the Court House. But is this a bureaucratic bungle or something more calculated

On a journey to the furthest outposts of Russia, Dimitris search becomes horribly complicated. To unearth the truth in a treacherous world of Russian officialdom he is forced to make some strange allies, not least among them the redoubtable Milk-Drinkers

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Impeccable historical details enjoyable reading Sunday Telegraph

A wily protagonist and racing narrative combine for perfect entertainment Time Out

Ingeniously imagined and zestfully written Literary Review

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Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the various tensions he draws on for his award-winning Mamur Zapt series. He returned there to teach, and retains a human rights interest in the area. In between whiles his career has followed the standard academic rakes progress from teaching to writing to editing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones. He lives in London. He is now a full-time writer. He was awarded the Crime Writers Associations prestigious Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel of the year for the Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt. Michael Pearce is also the author of the crime novels featuring Dmitri Kameron, set in Tsarist Russia of the 1890s.