Always serve cold
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Always serve cold
9.99 €
This novel is for those tired of the same old detective stories and looking for a book with a grand scale. It has it all: imperial palaces, conspiracies, mysterious murders, hereditary curses, and love tested by duels and wars. This book restores a taste for true literature—rich, atmospheric, and truly captivating.
St. Petersburg in June 1809—a city of official intrigues, balls, and sultry embankments. Russia is licking its wounds after wars, and the imperial capital is living its own turbulent life. Young Count Andrei Izvolsky, a recent hero of naval battles, is forced to leave the navy due to injury and joins the Decency Board. His first assignment is to investigate the mysterious murder of the hussar Mikhail Valevich. There are no signs of robbery, no weapons, only the strange word "gun" uttered before his death. The detective gradually reconstructs the chain of events and learns that Valevich and seven others once served time in the Peter and Paul Fortress and were later released. And then, several years later, someone begins killing these seven, one after another. Count Izvolsky discovers that the murders are connected to long-ago events that even the participants themselves would prefer to forget, as their trail leads all the way to the very heights of power—the imperial family.
St. Petersburg in June 1809—a city of official intrigues, balls, and sultry embankments. Russia is licking its wounds after wars, and the imperial capital is living its own turbulent life. Young Count Andrei Izvolsky, a recent hero of naval battles, is forced to leave the navy due to injury and joins the Decency Board. His first assignment is to investigate the mysterious murder of the hussar Mikhail Valevich. There are no signs of robbery, no weapons, only the strange word "gun" uttered before his death. The detective gradually reconstructs the chain of events and learns that Valevich and seven others once served time in the Peter and Paul Fortress and were later released. And then, several years later, someone begins killing these seven, one after another. Count Izvolsky discovers that the murders are connected to long-ago events that even the participants themselves would prefer to forget, as their trail leads all the way to the very heights of power—the imperial family.
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