An ingenious London - Leningrad art swindle. Fizzing complications involve girls from Intourist and the Sorbonne. It's a gas, with unexpected reflections on the nature of forgery behind the scam. So said Matthew Coady in the Guardian.
A British author of some 2 dozen books, half of which are crime novels, Russell is an ex-chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He has written several non-fiction works and half a dozen historical novels. He is currently working on the third book in his Croome Victorian saga, the first of which is AFTER SHE DROWNED, telling of forbidden love in the Victorian Church, and the second THE CAPTAIN'S WARD, telling of a young girl's coming of age in Victorian Britain.