The Dead Net of Yegor Lisitsa

Lisa Loseva’s new novel from the “Retro Detective” series tells of a new investigation by Yegor Lisitsa—the forensic expert Donoblugro. This time he travels to the remote hamlet of Ryazhenoye to find out the circumstances of the death of local activist Lyuba Rudina. She went to the city to buy supplies for the cell of the revkom and then disappeared. Later, her body was found in a backwater near the hamlet—in blood-red water poisoned by blooming algae…

The action in Lisa Loseva’s fast-paced novels takes place in one of the most tense periods in our country’s history— the 1920s–1930s. The nation, not yet fully recovered from the Revolution and the Civil War, is trying to build a new life. Against a vivid historical backdrop, an exciting detective intrigue unfolds.