Inspector Pekkala Eye of the Red Tsar, Book 1, (Paperback)

from auntmarge64

This story has the makings of a terrific thriller and historical novel, but there are some unfortunate problems with it. It's exciting, and the mystery lasts up to the end, but .... As the Tsar's most trusted confidant, detective Pekkala was raised far above his roots as a rural undertaker's son ...

from richardderus

The Book Report: Pekkala is the Tsar's most powerful subject, the only one with the power to arrest even the Tsar himself for crimes against Russia. The Revolution, naturally enough, ends that power, and Pekkala endures torture and isolation for more than a decade before Comrade Stalin needs Pekk...

from sgtbigg

In Eye of the Red Tsar, Nicholas II's special investigator, the Emerald Eye, is arrested following the Bolshevik revolution. The Eye, also known as Pekkala, is sent to the Gulag where he spends the next dozen years. Then several bodies are found in a mineshaft and Pekkala is released to determine...

from smik

One of the problems with historically based fiction is always how reliable the depiction of characters and events is. And how does the ordinary reader know? Can you judge authenticity in subjective ways like how the supposed "facts" feel? I guess I have an advantage over most readers in that I ha...

from tshay

Who was jack the Ripper, did Oswald really shoot JFK, and what really happened to the Romanov's are some of historys greatest mysteries. Books have been written and disproved, doctors, sciencetist have spoken out on both sides of the arguments, specialist have talked and talked and still we have ...