A Vengeful Longing: A St Petersburg Mystery (St. Petersburg Mysteries) - Tapa dura

A follow-up to The Gentle Axe finds nineteenth-century Russian investigator Porfiry Petrovich doubting an initial conclusion that a St. Petersburg doctor is responsible for his wife's and son's poisoning deaths when the case is tied to another murder across town. 20,000 first printing.

R. N. Morris was born in Manchester in 1960 and now lives in North London with his wife and two children. He sold his first short story to a teenage girls’ magazine while still a student at Cambridge University, where he read classics. Making his living as a freelance copywriter, he has continued to write, and occasionally publish, fiction. One of his stories, “The Devil’s Drum,” was turned into a one-act opera, which was performed at the Purcell Room in London’s South Bank. Another, “Revenants,” was published as a comic book.