Black Knight in Red Square: a Chief Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery

Suspense filled novel about a terrorist at the Moscow Film Festival who plots an international incident. Built during the reign of the Tsarist state, Moscow's Metropole Hotel is a poignant reminder of the last regime. But today its corridors are musty and its rooms are dark, but its restaurant is the scene of a quadruple murder. Four men (one American, one Japanese, and two citizens of Russia) share a meal of smoked salmon, caviar, and two bottles of vodka. In the morning, all are found dead, blood on their lips and faces contorted in pain. To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov. A terrorist is targeting foreigners to embarrass the Soviet state. The killer is sacrificing any Russian who gets in the way of completing is mission.