A Vengeful Longing
A Fiction, Historical, Cultural book. This mystery novel feature the police detective from "Crime and Punishment" trying...
A Vengeful Longing confirms what RN Morris' previous novel, A Gentle Axe, suggested - that here is major talent in the increasingly overcrowded historical crime field. On the evidence here, Morris is writing novels that rival the very best in the genre in terms of atmosphere, plausible historical detail and exemplary plotting. Two people - a mother and son -- are murdered; a box of chocolates delivered by woman's husband contains an agonising poison. The detectives investigating the killing (in which the doctor husband is, of course, the prime suspect - and seems to telegraph his guilt when interviewed) are the novice Virginsky and the experienced Porfiry Petrovich - the later, of course, the protagonist in Morris' previous books -- And the policeman in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, no less. Morris audaciously utilised Petrovich in his previous novel. That gamble (cheeky though it was) has paid off handsomely there - and does so once again in A Vengeful Longing. 19th-century...
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- Pages: 317 pages
- ISBN: 9780571232529 / 571232523
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Read it just before traveling to St Petersburg, Russia, which is the setting for this book. Okay as far as mysteries go, but not especially informative for someone traveling in present-day Russia since it is set in the 19th century. This mystery novel feature the police detective from "Crime and Punishment" trying to solve a series of murdes in 1860s Saint Petersburg. He has a young man with radical beliefs as his assistant. The author does a good job of producing dialogue between the two that is reminiscent of "Crime and Punishment." Using Dostoevsky's hero, Porfiry Petrovich, from "Crime and Punishment," R.N. Morris gives the detective the task of solving a string of murders in 1868 St. Petersburg. The gritty, summer-hot streets of the city, the ever-present flies, and the feces-filled canals are all too real almost uncomfortably so at times. Porfiry uses intellect...
