A Gentle Axe Carrie Ryan Journeying through Kittur's streets and

Journeying through Kittur's streets and schoolyards

but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox

the jewel in the Imperial crown

as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind

Mayhem and adventure

A Gentle Axe Carrie Ryan Journeying through Kittur's streets andFresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find