St. Petersburg Noir [Paperback]

Fourteen uniformly strong stories in this outstanding noir anthology devoted to Russias second city, St. Petersburg. With its rich if often tragic history, deep literary traditions, inspiring landscape, famous architecture, and an aging population stuffed into overcrowded kommunalkas amid a post-Soviet decline and soaring crime rate, the city provides an ideal backdrop for crime fiction . . . The diversity of these skillfully crafted tales testifies to the vigor of contemporary Russian writing.