** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ** 'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial Times 'Utterly compelling, both in its propulsive plotting and the dark and dangerously relevant themes it explores' Jake Arnott 'You'll find yourself looking over your shoulder when you leave the house!' Trevor Wood Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an officer in the MGB secret police assures militia detective Revol Rossel. Now he knows it's murder. Only recently released from a brutal Siberian labour camp and determined to find his missing sister at last, Rossel wants nothing to do with this new case. But his alcoholic, broken superior officer, Captain Lipukhin, seizes upon it as his salvation - a last chance to be a true Soviet hero. Along with sharp-witted Senior Lieutenant Lidia