Moscow Underground

Description

Title: Moscow Underground
Author: Catherine Merridale
Publisher: Fontana / HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780008761547

Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale is a historical thriller set in Moscow in 1934, during the construction of the city’s new subway and the tightening grip of Stalinist power. The novel blends crime, political tension, Soviet history, and personal betrayal in a dangerous world where the past cannot stay buried.

Anton Belkin is an investigator at the Procuracy, trying to keep his head down as the road to the Show Trials grows more treacherous. When an archaeologist connected to the subway dig is found murdered in a deserted mansion, Anton is pulled into a case he would rather avoid.

His former lover, Vika, now a powerful figure in the secret police, pushes him deeper into the investigation. Beneath Moscow, Anton discovers a secret that links art, history, politics, and a brutal struggle for power in the young Soviet state.