Karolina and the Torn Curtain

<b>An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime (Olga Tokarczuk Nobel laureate): when amateur sleuth and cunning socialite Zofia Turboty?ska's beloved maid goes missing she dives deep into Cracow's web of crime with only her trusted cook for company.</b> <p/> Cracow 1895. Zofia and her maid Franciszka have their hands full organizing Easter festivities especially with the household short one servant--where has the capable Karolina disappeared to? <p/> Shortly after Zofia hears that the body of a young woman violated and stabbed has washed up on a bank of the River Vistula. Domestic work can wait--Zofia must go investigate. Shockingly the body turns out to be none other than Karolina. Working with the police Zofia's investigations take her deep into the city's underbelly--a far cry from the socialite's Cracow she's familiar with. Desperate to unearth what happened to Karolina though she pushes her prejudice aside immersing herself among prostitutes gangsters and duplicitous politicians to unravel a twisted tale of love and deceit. <p/> Written with abundant wit and flair* Cracow's finest and most iconoclastic amateur sleuth returns in a highly politicized feminist murder mystery. <br> *<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>