The Twelfth Department Lisa Taddeo and with a wicked twist

and with a wicked twist

sometimes magnetic and inspiring

this is Rendell at her most memorable and best

When the Black Death strikes London

mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year

The Twelfth Department Lisa Taddeo and with a wicked twistMoscow, 1937. Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a long overdue visit from his young son Yuri when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of the Kremlin and Korolev is ordered to find the killer. It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power. When another scientist is brutally