Death of the Red Rider

A horseman and his mount collapse mysteriously during a race in Leningrad as Soviet purges loom. Detective Zaitsev, haunted by his recent clash with the Party, is assigned to investigate the death—a case that threatens to pull him deeper into the Red Terror's machinery. This second installment in Yulia Yakovleva's noir detective series combines historical intrigue with the moral reckoning of a man navigating a regime of paranoia and violence.