NewThe Unspoken Word2026
Evgeny Sukhov
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Cover of “The Secret of the Bloody Night”

Book 8 of the “Notes of a Court Detective” series

The Secret of the Bloody Night

Everyone knew him. But he did not know himself...

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2026
Language:
Russian (original)
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
The Secret of the Bloody NightExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

Everyone knew him. But he did not know himself...

1904. In Kazan two little girls are brutally killed. Their neighbor Elvira Shimanova also suffered: her one-year-old son vanished from the apartment, the criminal struck the woman in the face with an iron and stabbed her body with a knife. Elvira survived, but lost her sight and hearing, and so was unable to give testimony. The judicial investigator for especially important cases, Ivan Fyodorovich Volovtsov, suspects the victim's husband, Zinovy Shimanov. A neighbor saw him that day with a parcel under his arm. However, it later emerges that the suspect has an alibi... The complex chain of the investigation tightens more and more until the detective pays attention to one detail forgotten by the killer at the scene...

A historical detective novel about a crime of the early last century. The author immerses us in the atmosphere of that time so vividly that we can literally hear the clatter of the cobblestones, the noise of the city bazaar, the ringing of bells and the piercing whistles of the policemen...

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The Secret of the Bloody Night