Never to Dead to Talk (Detective Inspector Burgess Series) by Middleton Deborah

Author:Middleton, Deborah [Middleton, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

“Wow,” exclaimed Pamela. “I’ve just received an e-mail from Khitarov in Moscow. His English is a little hard to follow but the gist of it reads that he believes our male victim to be one Boris Vasiliev, a former butler of Alexeev. He’s also identified the girl as Eva Sidorova and, get this, she is in some way linked to a mafia group called the Vory v Zakone.” She stumbled over the pronunciation of the Russian words. “I’m going to look them up on the internet.”

“I know something about them,” De Souza called to her from his desk. “Have you seen the film ‘Eastern Promises’?”

“Can’t say that I have.”

“Well, it’s about the Russian Mafia operating in London and I seem to remember the main bad guy was supposed to be a Vor. He was covered in tattoos. Apparently, you can tell the life history of a Vor from the tattoos on his body. I remember they looked very religious, with a lot of things like church spires and crosses. Oh, I remember now. If you’re a high-ranking Vor, you’ll have a cross tattooed on your chest. The number of church spires you have represents the number of years you’ve spent in prison or the number of times you’ve been incarcerated. Oh, and this guy had stars tattooed on his knees to signify he was a captain and would kneel to no one; pretty heady stuff… and they have this weird code of conduct. Something like they have to renounce marriage, their parents, brothers and sisters and so forth; they can’t ever hold down a job… It’s all quite different from the Italian Cosa Nostra.”

Pamela turned and faced De Souza. “That fits in with some of the things the guy we took into custody last night was saying.” Pamela was beside herself with excitement. “He said that a man with a strange accent asked them to go to Alexeev’s house and that he had a lot of tattoos on his arms, hands and fingers. Do you think the Russian Mafia could be involved in our Point Shares murders?”

“Pamela, last year Buddy was attacked by a Croatian professional hitman. Anything’s possible.”

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