{"product_id":"9781529426540","title":"The Stolen Heart : The Kyiv Mysteries - Andrey Kurkov","description":"\u003cp\u003eSamson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to \"reinforce\" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best. Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fianc�e Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the \"meat case\" takes a back seat. But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined. Translated from the Russian by Boris DraylukReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\"Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre\" New York Times\"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more\" Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrey Kurkov","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 12\/03\/2026 \/ Historical mysteries","offer_id":56970008691063,"sku":"9781529426540","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781529426540_93b68034-0fed-48e2-b573-8e4e59ff9c5b.jpg?v=1780995240","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781529426540","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}