Book description
Korolev nodded, thinking of the dead girl, and wondering whether,
these days, it was such a good thing to be Commissar Ezhov’s friend .
. .
Russia, 1937. In Moscow, Stalin’s purges are reaching their darkest
hour.
Meanwhile Korolev, a police investigator, must travel to the bleak,
battle-scarred Ukraine - scene of some of Stalin’s bloodiest crimes - to
look into the mysterious death of a young woman. The victim, a beautiful
film production assistant, had made both powerful friends and terrible
enemies . . .
‘The Holy Thief
, set in Stalin’s Russia, was one of last year’s most impressive crime
fiction debuts. The Bloody Meadow
, William Ryan’s follow-up, does not disappoint . . . Ryan has obviously
done much research into that sinister period of Russian history and
manages to convey its claustrophobic atmosphere brilliantly’ Marcel
Berlins, The Times
‘Every bit as darkly compelling as its predecessor’ Daily Express
‘An outstanding thriller’ Independent
Ireland ‘William Ryan convincingly pitched us into the Kafkaesque
labyrinth of 1930s Stalinist Russia with last year’s The Holy Thief -
his troubled Moscow militia detective risking the gulag as he uncovered
crimes at high levels. In The Bloody Meadow Korolev is dispatched to
film set in the Ukraine to dig into the supposed suicide of a young,
pretty ‘model citizen’ with powerful connections . . . Korolev’s
struggle to stay sane in a world gone mad is intriguing’ Metro
WILLIAM RYAN is an Irish writer, living in London - having worked as
a lawyer in the City for a number of years. In his spare time, he wrote
on an occasional basis for television and film before completing a
Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews University in 2005.
Also available in the Korolev series: The Holy Thief.
