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Quirky and colourful Times Crime Club

An absolute delight L C Tyler

This intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychological depth and wonderfullydrawn characters Eleanor Ray

A cast of colourful characters decorate this cosy Siberian crime The Sun

Winter has come early to the tiny Siberian village of Roslazny but for Olga Pushkin aspiring writer and Railway Engineer Second Class it only makes leaving the harder Olga is being forced overseas by her jealous superior and now faces two years in exile from her beloved railside hut her whitebreasted hedgehog Dmitri and Vassily Marushkin sergeantincharge at the tiny Roslazny police station

Fate seems to intervene when Olgas train crashes outside Roslazny shutting the line and killing two on board local celebrity Danyl Petrovich and his wife Anoushka But Vassily Marushkin soon discovers that the TransSiberian locomotive was derailed on purpose As the weather closes in trapping the villagers and the suspects inside Vassily begins a murder investigation in which Olga and her longlost friend Nevena Komarov soon become closely involved

But murder and extreme weather isnt all Olga has to deal with Recalcitrant publishers haunted police stations and embarrassing online exposs combine to make this early winter a particularly challenging one with the threat of a forced departure still looming as soon as the weather lifts Can Olga find out who killed the Petroviches secure the release of her book exorcise the ghost and save her job all at the same time

The whole atmosphere of the village and the two main characters are evoked with charm and panache A novel to treasure A N Wilson

Praise for Death on the TransSiberian Express

The book is an absolute delight evocative equally of the frozen steppes bad vodka and worse sausage and full of larger than life characters Olga Pushkin is an endearing protagonist who is hopefully set for a series as long as the Trans Siberian Railway L C Tyler

Written with a warmth that would thaw Siberia this intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychological depth and wonderfullydrawn characters It also features the best hedgehog Ive met in a novel Eleanor Ray