Just read Andrey Kurkov, The Silver Bone, trans. Boris Dralyuk (HarperCollins, 2024). This is the first of Kurkov’s K...

Just read Andrey Kurkov, The Silver Bone, trans. Boris Dralyuk (HarperCollins, 2024). This is the first of Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries, and I might be hooked. It’s set in the late winter and early spring of 1919, a perilous time to be alive in Kyiv and a wacky setting for a detective novel.