Read on BBC Book at Bedtime from 13th June to 20th June 2011.

The latest thriller by the author of Gorky Park is set in Putin's Moscow where three stations meet. As she arrives at the station a teenage girl wakes to find her baby has been taken.   A prostitute has been found dead in a trailer in Three Stations without a mark on her. Renko's curiosity is aroused. This is the stunning new thriller from the author of Gorky Park and Stalin's Ghost.

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Synopsis

As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl - Maya - wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken...

Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow's Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the brink of resignation when he becomes drawn into a strange new case. Soon Renko will find that the girl is linked to the extravagant Club Nijinsky and, as he is drawn into the extraordinary world of Moscow's super-rich, that nothing is quite as it seems.

Meanwhile, Maya also wanders Three Stations, searching for her baby. Her only ally is a young man, Zhenya - Renko's own troubled ward - who is drawn to her cause and will guide her through Moscow's dark underbelly. But neither Zhenya nor Renko realize that Maya herself is being hunted. And those seeking her will stop at nothing to silence her...

About the Author

Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Polar Star, Red Square, Rose, Havana Bay and Stalin’s Ghost. A recipient of the CWA Gold Dagger for fiction in the UK, he is also two-time winner of the Hammett Prize in the United States. He lives with his wife and children in northern California.  More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation