Мужские игры

Каменская #17

by Alexandra Marinina

В Москве появился маньяк, задушивший в течение короткого времени семь человек. Крупный мафиози Эдуард Денисов дает сотруднику уголовного розыска Насте Каменской понять, что в деле маньяка-душителя есть загадка и по крайней мере одна из жертв не имеет отношения к серии, состоящей из семи убийств. Занимаясь поисками маньяка, Анастасия с ужасом обнаруживает, что к преступлениям, по всей вероятности, причастен близкий ей человек.

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Russia, Fiction, Russian Literature

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Alexandra Marinina (real name Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva) is a Russian writer and crime stories author. For 10 years (1979 - 1989) she worked in milicia (police) as a criminology specialist.
She has written over 40 novels, published in over 17 million copies and translated into over 20 languages.
Most of her novels have a common central character Anastasia (Nastya) Kamenskaya. Whole series about Anastasia (Nastya) Kamenskaya contains 30 books.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

It seems excessive to write an individual review for each Marinina detektiv. Basic plot summary: Take one extremely lazy, generally unattractive, but incredibly gifted analyst for the Moscow police and make her solve completely implausible crimes. In the end, she figures out the whole tangled sordid web of lies and violence, but only rarely do the bad guys actually go to jail. Somewhere in between, she transforms herself into an enticing vixon who lands into some dangerous situations, but always manages to deduce her way out of them.

Spoiler: Her new boss is an asshole. Will she be able to deal with his harsh way of doing business or does she need a new line of work? But first, can she solve the mystery of a Moscow serial killer? Her hunch: the serial killer is a former female basketball player with a taste for revenge.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Major Anastasia Kamienska this time has to deal with serial killer, suspicion that someone from her nearest circle is involved in murders and she gets a hint from a Moscow mafioso. New year brought new boss that has different point of view what, how and in what time his employees should do than the previous boss called Doughnut and Nastia starts having problems with her emotions and thinks about changing a job.

[Serge]

Emily's review is very good! Marinina was a police analyst, and, to her credit, she wrote about what she knew best. The major criminals do not go to jail because such investigation is beyond routine police work, as Kamenskaya is the first to admit. The series of early novels written is the 1990s should be seen as a chronicle of the difficult transformation of Russian society from communism to capitalism. There is a lot of autheniticity in the novels, in the depictions of both the political machinations and the organized crime.

In this case, the most odious character dies accidentally, not as a result of police investigation. There is the interesting depiction of the tragic fate of (some) female sports stars. And the reappearance of an underworld character, with whom Kamenskaya had a love-hate relationship over several cases, is wonderfully presented.

[Anu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lugedes seda raamatut paljude aastate tagant uuesti üle hämmastas mind arusaamine kuivõrd häguselt meenus mulle selle raamatu sisu. Keeruline, paljude laipade ja tegelastega mõrvalugu üliulatuslikust võrgustikust ja uskumatust korruptsioonist sobis minu kujutlusega Venemaast väga hästi. Natuke segas saamatuvõitu tõlge ja kirjavead, mida esimesel lugemisel ei pannud tähelegi! Ajastu, mil antud raamatu tegevus toimus- aastatuhande vahetus, oli ka väga märgiline. Aga kuna tegevustik mul praktiliselt meeles eriti polnud oli tore korra meenutada oma head sõprust Kamenskaja ja Kakukese jt tegelastega.
Kuid midagi pole teha, ikkagi segab lugemisnaudingut käesolev verine sõda Ukrainas, ei taha nagu eriti vene kirjandust lugeda. Mingi tõrge on!

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Amina Mirsakiyeva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Жутко раздражает шовинистический посыл. Но опять же сюжет придуман интересно, отчасти в традициях Кристи: все не то, что кажется.

[Sergei Prostakov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Почти политический детектив Марининой, впрочем весьма медленный 2/3 повествования.