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“As Stalin’s Great Terror begins, a killer strikes…” Murder, Communism, and Religion are the makings of suspense
Soviet Russia in the 1930s, full of paranoia, party politics, and life or death situations is the setting for William Ryan’s first novel. The Holy Thief, a novel following the detective work of Captain Alexei Korolev, delves into the crime world of Stalin’s reign where the line between upstanding citizen, murderer, and thief no longer exists.