Karolina And The Torn Curtain (A Zofia Turbotynska Mystery)

ISBN: 0358157579

Author: Szymiczkowa, Maryla

Condition: New

An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime (Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate): when amateur sleuth and cunning socialite Zofia Turbotynskas beloved maid goes missing, she dives deep into Cracows web of crime, with only her trusted cook for company.Cracow, 1895. Zofia and her maid Franciszka have their hands full organizing Easter festivities, especially with the household short one servant-where has the capable Karolina disappeared to?Shortly after, Zofia hears that the body of a young woman, violated and stabbed, has washed up on a bank of the River Vistula. Domestic work can wait-Zofia must go investigate. Shockingly, the body turns out to be none other than Karolina. Working with the police, Zofias investigations take her deep into the citys underbelly-a far cry from the socialites Cracow shes familiar with. Desperate to unearth what happened to Karolina, though, she pushes her prejudice aside, immersing herself among prostitutes, gangsters, and duplicitous politicians to unravel a twisted tale of love and deceit.Written with abundant wit and flair,* Cracows finest, and most iconoclastic, amateur sleuth returns in a highly politicized feminist murder mystery.*Kirkus Reviews