The fair at Sokolniki

Sasha Turetsky’s first day as a trainee at the Moscow Public Prosecutor’s Office begins with what seems to be a routine suicide enquiry in Sokolniki Park. But when the corpse hanging from a tree is discovered to be the body of a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the official’s ballerina mistress is found shot dead in a nearby hotel room and the couple’s underworld connections come to light, Turetsky and his maverick boss Merkulov become involved in a dizzying investigation in which the KGB are soon involved.

In a fast and deadly game of intrigue and counterplot which he barely comprehends, Turetsky soon sheds his naive illusions about the monolithic power of the Soviet State as he realises that the chain of corruption and death which he is following goes right to the highest echelons of political power.

THE FAIR AT SOKOLNIKI is written with gripping authenticity: the author, Fridrikh Neznansky was a top criminal investigator in Russia before emigrating to the United States.

Like its two predecessors – particularly the gripping DEADLY GAMES –
SOKOLNIKI is the genuine rouble’
TIME OUT

‘ A thriller with a difference… particularly fascinating as it is written by a native Muscovite’
DAILY POST

‘An excellent police procedural whodunit as murder, graft and the KGB collide in Moscow’
DAILY MAIL