A Traitor's Heart

Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. Rossel must team up with Major Nikitin – the man who cut off virtuoso violinist Rossel's fingers – to hunt down the murderer. 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 weapon of unimaginable power - a weapon the Kremlin's scheming plotters will kill for...