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Karolina and the Torn Curtain

by Maryla Szymiczkowa
Moira Quirk
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"An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime" (Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate): when amateur sleuth and cunning socialite Zofia Turbotyńska's beloved maid goes missing, she dives deep into Cracow's web of crime, with only her trusted cook for company.
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?
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.
"Written with abundant wit and flair,"* Cracow's finest, and most iconoclastic, amateur sleuth returns in a highly politicized feminist murder mystery.
*Kirkus Reviews
Read by Moira Quirk

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Zofia Turbotynska Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 23, 2021

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780358449478
      • File size: 322429 KB
      • Duration: 11:11:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Moira Quirk's performance of this novel, set in 1895 Kracow, bristles with period politics and feminist viewpoints while offering a complex mystery and an appealing heroine. When the raped, stabbed body of Zofia Turbotyska's maid, Karolina, is found washed up on a river bank, the police assume Karolina was a prostitute since her body was found in an unsavory area of Kracow. Quirk handles the Polish names and places with ease, adding atmosphere to Szymiczkowa's original plotting. As Zofia moves into Kracow's seedy underworld to investigate, she rubs shoulders with gangsters, ladies of the night, politicos, and socialists. Quirk deftly delivers all the subtleties, conflicting attitudes, and even bits of humor in this unusual mystery. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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