A Times ''Best New Thriller'' for May 2022 ''Enthralling ... Sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit'' Financial Times''Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin''s Leningrad in all its beauty and misery'' The Times''A cleverly constructed thriller'' Sunday Times''A fantastically tense atmosphere ... A spine-tingling page-turner'' The Sun___________Leningrad, winter 1952. An invisible killer known as Koshchei - a nightmare of Slavic folklore - stalks the streets, leaving a distinctive and gruesome mark upon its victims.Three thousand kilometres away in a Gulag labour colony, threatened by the vicious criminals who rule the camp and tormented by the Arctic cold, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death.But then a brutal saviour descends from the skies: the state security interrogator who years ago ruined his life is back, tasking Rossel with tracking down the murderer.As the hunt continues, the two men uncover riddle after riddle, including a clue to finding a w
