The Cop Who Came in from the Cold

It’s been almost six years since we last heard from Moscow Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, the honorable, weight-lifting protagonist in Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express and 13 previous novels by Stuart M. Kaminsky. I was starting to think that Rostnikov, who scored Kaminsky his only Edgar Allan Poe Award (for 1987’s A Cold Red Sunshine), might have disappeared someplace into the corrupt law-enforcement system to which he has devoted his adult life.

But the author’s Web site now brings the news that there’s a 15th Rostnikov outing in the offing:

May 2008, the new Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov novel PEOPLE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS will be published in hardcover. For fans of Rostnikov, I am contracted for two new books in the series, the first of which is the above-mentioned PEOPLE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS. It is set in Siberia and deals with diamond mining, the ghost of a child and Rostnikov’s never-before-mentioned brother.

As far as hardcover publications go, Kaminsky’s site also carries word that the 10th Abe Lieberman/Bill Hanrahan Chicago novel, The Dead Don’t Lie, will be published in August of this year.