Yes now. Now it is autumn. The wind is blowing, the temperatures have finally dropped and a little rain has fallen. We lack snow and ice, but they will arrive and I hope they will stay the whole year. Those of us who are happy under blankets, with scarves and hot coffee, continue invoking the gods of the cold. Meanwhile we also travel with the imagination to the best places to find it. And none better than the icy Russia of iciest crimes and investigators who solve them with skill and a lot of intrigue.
In addition, we are in the middle of the centenary of the 1917 Revolution. But with the intelligence agent Leo Demidov and the captain of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Division, alexei korolev, we are going to a somewhat later time: the 30s and 50s. Its creators, the writers Tom Rob Smith and William RyanThey knew how to move between political intrigues, serial killers and cold, very cold.
Tom rob smith
Tom rob smith (1979) was born and raised in London and is the son Swedish mother and English father. He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge. Thanks to a Harper scholarship he went to Pavia in Italy to study Creative Writing. Upon returning, he began working as a scriptwriter for television series.
Leo Demidov
- The child 44
2008 was his first novel and Smith was considered the breakthrough author of that year. He won Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller awarded by the Crime Writers' Association. Smith was inspired by the life of the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, which between the 70s and 90s murdered 52 people, most of them children.
It is set in Stalinist Russia in 1953. Narrates how Leo Stepanovich Demidov, a war hero working in the Soviet intelligence, has to investigate a series of murders. This will also lead him to inquire about some enigmas of his difficult childhood. And although at first he blindly believes in the official propaganda of the system, when he is forced to spy on his own wife for alleged treason, Demidov is disappointed.
Su nonconformityDespite his decorations and brilliant service record, he was demoted and expelled from Moscow. Incorporated into the militia of an industrial city, he will come across the case of some murders of children suspiciously closed by authorities. Demidov will try to solve the mystery on his own.
The rights to take her to the movies were acquired by Ridley Scott and in 2015 Swedish director Daniel Espinosa directed its adaptation. They starred in it Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace and he had fancy secondary like Gary Oldman or Charles Dance.
- The secret speech
From 2009. We are in 1956. Demidov has returned to Moscow and lives with his wife Raisa and their adopted daughters Zoya and Elena. But his past and the legacy of his old career - like the friends and family of those he detained as a state security officer - continue to haunt him. A new series of murders it will threaten to break that fragile stability. What's more, the life of his daughter Zoya will be put in danger.
- Agent 6
It is the last title in the series and was published in 2011, but it's only in english. It develops already in the period of the Cold War. Raisa and her two daughters travel to the United States on a diplomatic mission, but one unexpected tragedy destroy everything that Leo Demidov and Raisa had built.
William ryan
Ryan is a Irish writer based in London, where he worked for several years as a lawyer in the City, in addition to collaborating from time to time for television and film.
alexei korolev
- Russian Requiem
Was his literary debut with this series starring the captain of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Division, Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev.
The lifeless body of a young woman appears on the altar of a deconsecrated church. The case is assigned to Captain Korolev, who will discover that the victim is an American citizen. The NKVD decides to intervene and Korolev is followed under close scrutiny. Any wrong move could spell your exile to Siberia. Korolev will enter in the underworld Muscovites to talk to their leaders while feeling pressure from their superiors and wondering who they can trust.
- Red meadow
I have been in pdf for a long time The child 44 but I have not taken it. I don't know, maybe I read it
It is good. I recommend it to you.