{"product_id":"9781529426533-secondhand-the-stolen-heart-the-kyiv-mysteries","title":"The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries","description":"Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime.  But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to \"reinforce\" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best. Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancee Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the \"meat case\" takes a back seat. But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined. Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk Reviews for  The Silver Bone  - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize \"Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre\"  New York Times \"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished  The Silver Bone  wishing to read more\"  Guardian","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49027692134619,"sku":"9781529426533-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dc295dc0-0c22-43e1-a6a2-a887a613ed8d_6377b6f5-2d9f-420f-8807-a300e36e593f.jpg?v=1785092056","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781529426533-secondhand-the-stolen-heart-the-kyiv-mysteries","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}