He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective ...

Popular novelist Martin Cruz Smith engaged readers for decades with "Gorky Park" and other thrillers featuring Moscow ...

Hotel Ukraine” is the 11th and last installment in the popular Arkady Renko series by Martin Cruz Smith. He launched the ...

Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82. His publisher, ...

Arkady Renko now fumbles with his keys at the door as his Parkinson’s disease gradually grows worse. The legendary Russian ...

Cruz’s 11 Arkady Renko books, which deepen and darken with feeling as they go, are a testament to courage and a reminder of mortality.