Punishment of a Hunter: A Leningrad Confidential - A Leningrad Confidential (Hardback)

'This is the most successful reload of the retro-detective genre in Russian fiction since Akunin.' - literratura

'Yakovleva writes with an expert and deep knowledge of the period, and she simply writes well.' - Gorky

'Yakovleva's unobtrusive art entertainment, which introduces paintings of Botticelli, Velazquez, Van Dyck, and Rubens, is one of the true pleasures this novel offers... For Yakovleva, it is more important to understand not how the crimes were performed, but why. The author is interested first and foremost in the mechanism of how the large state evil gives birth to a private, small evil.' - Fontanka

'Yulia Yakovleva leads the hero (as well as the reader) through every circle of Soviet hell, to a bright finale that offers both satisfaction from how the plot wraps up as well as the suggestion of an opening for a sequel.' - Medusa.io

'The novel's main hero is the time period, a time marked by Petersburg's impotency and beauty, steel and blood' - chaskor.ru