{"product_id":"9781529426540","title":"The Stolen Heart : The Kyiv Mysteries","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Kurkov, Andrey \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHistorical mysteries\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 12 March 2026 by Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Kyiv Mysteries' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 23 | 226g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to 'reinforce' the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the 'meat case' takes a back seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Boris DraylukReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize'Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre' New York Times'Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52831412617552,"sku":"9781529426540","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781529426540.jpg?v=1774026526","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781529426540","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}