Summer
1880.
Lipetsk, a spa town in Russia.
The elderly and cantankerous Princess Belskaya suffers a violent reaction while taking a mud bath at the famous Lipetsk Sanatorium. Soon after, she dies.
Dr Roldugin, the medical director of the sanatorium, is at a loss to explain the sudden and shocking death.
He points the finger at Anna Zhdanova, a medical assistant who was supervising the princess’s treatment.
Suspicion also falls on the princess’s nephew Belsky, who appears far from grief-stricken at his aunt’s death.
Meanwhile, investigating magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky arrives in Lipetsk from St Petersburg, seeking treatment after a nervous breakdown.
Against his better judgement, Virginsky is drawn in to the investigation. But is he getting closer to the truth or walking straight into a deadly trap?
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Roger (R.N) Morris is the author of 18
books, including a quartet of historical crime novels set in St Petersburg
featuring Porfiry Petrovich, the investigating magistrate from Dostoevsky’s
great novel Crime and Punishment. These were followed by the Silas Quinn series
set in London in 1914. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Gold
Dagger and the CWA Historical Dagger.
A former advertising copywriter, Roger has written the libretto for an opera, modern retellings of Frankenstein and Macbeth for French school children. He’s also a scriptwriter for an award winning audio producer, working on true crime and history podcasts including The Curious History of your Home.
His work has been published in 16 countries.
Married with two grown-up children, Roger lives in Chichester where he keeps an eye out for seagulls.
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Thanks so much for featuring R.N. Morris, with his intriguing murder mystery, Death of a Princess.
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Cathie xo
The Coffee Pot Book Club
My pleasure.
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