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È il giugno del 2021 e Arkady Renko è consapevole che la Russia sta pianificando di invadere e successivamente annettere l'Ucraina, come già accaduto con la Crimea nel 2014. Tuttavia, l'ispettore è distratto da altre preoccupazioni: la sua compagna di lunga data, Tatiana Petrovna, lo ha lasciato per dedicarsi al lavoro di reporter investigativa; i suoi superiori corrotti lo hanno relegato a un impiego d'ufficio per tenerlo fuori dai giochi; e, inoltre, una visita medica ha rivelato che i suoi problemi di destrezza e di equilibrio sono i primi sintomi del morbo di Parkinson.

Nineteen thirty-four, London. Into the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow?

Seventeen-year-old Çaglar is just another apathetic teenager - except when it comes to his sister, Çigdem, who he believes is the world's most beautiful and brilliant nine-year-old. Determined to display her genius, Çaglar grooms Çigdem's talent into a perfect Michael Jackson impersonation and pursues a sure route to fame: YouTube. Tragically, Çaglar's efforts are sabotaged by a little incident internationally known as the Taksim riots.

The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men - one American, one Japanese, and two Russians - will all be dead by morning, poisoned. To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to the famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov.

A powerful art dealer who presents a convincing portrait of international success pulls an idealistic young gallery assistant into his web of lies. This sharp, edgy social thriller explores the price of ambition in the decadent underbelly of the high-end art world. Nobody knows quite who Rudolph...