Death to Husbands!

11 hrs. 40 min.

Language Russian

Author Anton Chizh

Narrator Ivan Shevelev

Anton Chizh is a well-known Russian writer—perhaps one of the brightest contemporary authors of historical detective fiction.

“Death to Husbands!” is the first novel in the series about Rodion Vanzharov, a talented, unusual sleuth and the ladies’ favorite—as well as his friend Apollon Lebedev, a great forensic expert. St. Petersburg, 1895. In the capital of the Russian Empire there is terrible, exhausting heat. In the police station where Vanzharov works, the body of a man in a reddish wig is brought in from Nevsky Prospekt. Vanzharov’s sharp eye notices that the cause of death is not a sunstroke at all, but a crime—indeed a mysterious one. Lebedev takes the murder weapon from the victim’s chest, and it is even unknown to him, despite all his experience. And after just a few hours, two bodies are found in a tenement house: a noble lady and her maid. Working on two murders at once, Vanzharov understands that he has the thread in his hands that can lead to the disclosure of the great case every forensic investigator dreams of. But the young and hot-blooded detective doesn’t realize that he is putting his own life in terrible danger—he could die at any minute. Will he find the strength to find the killer? Will he have the courage to make the right choice between duty and love? Find out what happened in Rodion Vanzharov’s first case.