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Good Reasons to Die

Morgan Audic

Good Reasons to Die

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Good Reasons to Die was shortlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023. In a village close to Chernobyl, detectives Joseph Melnyk and Galina Novak uncover a man's mutilated body hanging from a building. All clues left at the scene of the crime point to a double homicide that took place on the very night that the nuclear power plant exploded. Doubtful of the abilities of the Ukrainian police, the murdered man's father, a Moscow mafia boss, summons Rybalko, a Russian police officer of dubious morals, to conduct a parallel investigation to find and execute his son's killer. Rybalko goes to Ukraine and recovers the corpse, which no-one has dared to touch because of its radioactive contamination. Good Reasons to Die is a breath-taking thriller set in a dislocated Ukraine where armed conflicts, economic collapse and ecological demands are interwoven with the exhilarating hunt to find a deranged serial killer.

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Publisher
Welbeck Publishing Group Ltd.
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9781914495144
Genre
Crime & Thriller
Topics
Serial killer investigationChernobyl disasterPost-Soviet crime and corruption

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