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Monday, December 28th, 2009

Video review, in French

There’s a wonderful French bookseller called Gerard Collard of La Griffe Noire bookshop, who records video reviews of books. Great idea, especially when you’re such an assured and engaging performer as Monsieur Collard. Below is his review of the French edition of A Gentle Axe, which bears the French title of L’Ame Detournee. Sorry no accents. Can’t get my head around the code.

Tags: Gentle Axe, Gerard Collard, L'Ame Detournee, La Griffe Noire
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

A Gentle Axe

Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park – a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree. Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich begins his investigation in the city’s squalid brothels and drinking dens but is soon led into an altogether more genteel stratum of society – and to a shocking discovery which reveals the darkest reserves of the Russian soul.

“Lush, and exceptionally compelling, but take your time – R.N. Morris’s The Gentle Axe has a vast depth of Russian soul; mysterious, compassionate, and utterly irresistible.”

Alan Furst.

“A satisfyingly grisly yarn… CSI: St. Petersburg.”

The New York Times Book Review

“Vivid and convincing… keeps the reader guessing until the end.”

The Independent

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Tags: Faber, Gentle Axe, historical crime fiction, Porfiry Petrovich, R.N. Morris, St Petersburg
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