"A COLD RED SUNRISE: AN INSPECTOR PORFIRY ROSTNIKOV MYSTERY, BY STUART M. KAMINSKY, NARRATED BY MARK HAMMER." "The killer poured a drink from the bottle on the table and waited, waited and watched. The secret of success was surprise, patience and anticipation. The killer knew that, had been taught that, had already gone out in the snowy night to take care of the possibility of temporary failure. Just before midnight a round, bundled figure stepped out of the door of the weather station and limped slowly, even more slowly than he had come up the slope, down toward the square. He was alone. The killer lifted the nearby bionculars and scanned the frost-covered windows of the houses around the small square. No one was visible. It was time for the killer to act." [from A Cold Red Sunrise] "No one had much liked the Commissar Illya Rutkin. He had been too self-aggrandizing, behaving as if the death of Samsonov's little girl was merely a minor detail, a bothersome fly in the ointment that had landed him in Tumsk, Siberia---their iced---over hell---in the first place. But no one expected Rutkin to end up at the very door of the People's Hall of Justice, frozen solid, the victim of two fatal icicle wounds through the eye and neck. When Inspector Rostnikov arrives in Siberia to sort out Rutkin's death, his back is very much against the wall. Rostnikov has crossed the KGB's ubiquitous path one too many times in the past. Now his every move is being carefully observed and monitored. Accompanied by his allotted watch-dog, Sokolov, and his loyal partner, the grim-faced Karpo, Rostnikov must prove that both child and Commissar died at the hands of the same killer, and not some monstrous hallucination issued forth from the Siberian wasteland. "Kaminsky captures the Russian scene and character in rich deatil." [The Washington Post] (from the covers of case)