For fans of The Millennium Trilogy, The Silence of the Lambs and American Psycho, BUTTERFLY SKIN takes readers into the dark depths of contemporary Russia. Teaming socio-political subversion and moral decrepitude, Kuznetsov’s sinister tale is eerily relevant for our times…
Moscow is plagued with a series of gruesome murders. Ksenia, an ambitious young editor in the news department of a small but influential online newspaper decides to track down the serial killer, devising an elaborate website to entrap him and thereby boost her company’s profile. She soon realises, however, that her obsession with the psychopath reflects something more deeply disturbing: her own unconscious mixture of horror and fascination with the sexual savagery of the murders.
Through his riveting plot and singular characters, Sergey Kuznetsov explores the sometimes-pathological fallout resulting from our instant connectivity in the emerging world of emails, Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of electronic “intimacy” with chilling effects.
BUTTERFLY SKIN will be published in paperback on 29th September 2014.
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