There are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union |
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 | There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union is a recently reissued edition of a short-story collection first published in the 80's. It contains 6 stories in all, one of which features the first trembling steps of Joe Sixsmith onto the printed page, and one of which sort of features Dalziel & Pascoe but definitely doesn't.
And it is the title story that really stands out. It's an excellent piece (at a hundred pages, it's more of a novella, too) set in Stalinist Moscow, in which Inspector Lev Chislenko must figure out why a group of people have just witnessed a murder that happened over 50 years ago. It's excellent: Hill has the space to flesh out Chislenko more than he does some of his other protagonists, and it's definitely he and this story that remains in the mind after the collection is finished. It has everything you could pack into a short story: atmosphere, character, suspense, a bit of romance, a bit of death, a bit of politics, a bit of the supernatural and, as it's Hill, a bit ... read more.
Written by Reginald Hill.
Published 03 March 2008.
Published by Harper.
rrp £6.99.
336 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0007262981
ISBN-13: 9780007262984 | |
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