Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Gorky Park it isn't. We find a young girl or two brutally murdered in Russia, but there the similarity with Martin Cruz Smith's best seller ends. A Philby-like Englishman defects to Russia, leaving his daughter Pandora (get it?) to deal with her fate as best she can. A couple of shady KGB types, a Russian film director, and an effete London playboy get mixed up in what passes for the action. The keeper of a Moscow crematorium murders efficiently for her brother, Khor, who seems not to like anyone except that sister. This is a silly, plodding first novel." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)