Books like Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
In the frosty heart of Moscow’s Gorky Park, three corpses are discovered frozen, their faces and fingers missing. Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko, a brilliant and skeptical sleuth, must untangle the case while jostling for information against the KGB, the FBI, and New York police.
His investigation points to a wealthy and ruthless American fur dealer whose influence reaches far beyond the streets of Moscow. Amid the procedural twists, Renko finds himself drawn into a passionate and perilous romance with a headstrong dissident, risking everything to protect her and himself.
Smith’s narrative weaves a suspenseful police procedural with intimate character study, offering an unflinching portrait of Moscow life in the early 1980s.
First publish date: 1981
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Martin Cruz Smith
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