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      Last Stop on the Murder Express

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      The third in the charming and compelling Olga Pushkin Mysteries.

      ''Quirky and colourful'' Times Crime Club

      ''The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make t...

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      Product ID:9781472133199
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:The Olga Pushkin Mysteries
      Title:Last Stop on the Murder Express
      Authors:Author: C J Farrington
      Page Count:352
      Subjects:Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      The third in the charming and compelling Olga Pushkin Mysteries.

      ''Quirky and colourful'' Times Crime Club

      ''The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make this a novel to treasure'' A. N. Wilson

      ''This intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychological depth and wonderfully-drawn characters'' Eleanor Ray


      Literary fame beckons for Olga Pushkin, Railway Engineer (Second Class), when her self-help manual for hard-working women is published at last. In the meantime, however, Olga still has a household to support, a hedgehog to feed, and railway tracks to maintain from her tiny Siberian village of Roslazny, which has just become the target for Russian Railways budget cuts. Worse still, her beloved sergeant of police, Vassily Marushkin, has reunited with his long-lost wife Rozalina. And soon Rozalina is forcing Vassily to consider moving away...

      Matters aren''t helped when Olga''s scheming superior, Boris Andreyev, forces her to babysit a special Romanov-themed murder mystery steam train doing the rounds of the local towns. Parked in a siding near Roslazny, the players deliver the first of several intended performances - only for a staged murder to become very real. Vassily starts a homicide investigation in conjunction with his boss, the mercurial Captain Zemsky, but both are baffled when another murder follows on the heels of the first.

      Old-school Zemsky bans Olga from joining the investigation - but she soon makes vital discoveries that point towards something deeper and more worrying than the murders alone. Further afield, a rival author emerges to steal Olga''s crown, while back in Roslazny Olga begins to suspect that Vassily''s wife Rozalina might be hiding secrets of her own. With chaos striking Roslazny, can Olga solve the murders, save her literary career, and settle Rozalina''s identity before she loses Vassily forever?


      Praise for C J Farrington

      ''The book is an absolute delight, evocative equally of the frozen steppes, bad vodka and worse sausage, and full of larger than life characters. Olga Pushkin is an endearing protagonist, who is hopefully set for a series as long as the Trans Siberian Railway.'' L C Tyler

      ''Written with a warmth that would thaw Siberia, this intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychological depth and wonderfully-drawn characters. It also features the best hedgehog I''ve met in a novel.'' Eleanor Ray


      Imprint Name:Constable
      Publisher Name:Little, Brown Book Group
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2023-11-02

      Additional information

      Weight566 g
      Dimensions164 × 242 × 34 mm