Independence Square, Smith - B

                     Forty-two years after 'Gorky Park,' Arkady Renko is still at it. He's asked to look into a murder on Moscow's streets at the same time a local crook asks him to find his daughter, Karina. The missing daughter's friend, Elena, and Renko head off to Kyiv when a few clues about Karina and the murdered victim point there. While there, a dissident who both women had worked with in Moscow is assassinated and the next day, the local head of the Crimean Tatars is murdered in Kyiv. Elena and Arkady go to Sevastopol in Crimea where the matter comes to a conclusion. It's Russia and the conclusion is corrupt and utterly wrong, but it is what one expects. As always, and still after all these years, a fun read.