A Vengeful Longing Audiobook

Quotes

• “Full marks to the author for bringing Petrovich back to life in this ambitious work that is a real pleasure to read.”

  — Economist

• “Porfiry’s second outing is entertaining and educative, thanks to the author’s passion for his canvas.”

  — Financial Times

• “Morris captures this world with expert strokes, never content to merely peddle exotica, but making sure that his characters spring convincingly from their setting. While the person behind the crimes is a little unlikely, this novel stands out from a number of fine czarist-era mysteries—by Russians and foreigners alike—like a Fabergé egg at a yard sale.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Morris seems to have hit his stride. His characters come alive in all their destitution, pretension, madness, fractiousness, and humanity. His portrait of the city, abandoned by the well-to-do in summer, offers a rich, palpably fetid sense of place, and his depiction of nineteenth-century Russian society, festering with revolutionary notions and old grudges, is compelling.”

  — Booklist

• “Morris seamlessly and brilliantly segues from intensely grave to laugh-out-loud funny. Provocative, satirical insights into humanity’s darker corners.”

  — Kirkus Reviews