Yulia Yakovleva

On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush with the Party, is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk, southern Russia, to investigate. As he witnesses the horror of the Holodomor, and the impact of Soviet...

Punishment of a Hunter by Yulia Yakovleva is set in 1930s Leningrad, a time when a mood of fear cloaks the city. Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is tasked with investigating a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless murders. Each victim is curiously dressed and posed in extravagantly arranged settings. At the same time, valuable old master paintings begin disappearing from the...