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Holodomor: A Crime Novel

Jaroslav (Jerry) Petryshyn

1930 Soviet Ukraine: Katya Karina Kharsova, secretary (and mistress) to Kreil Gromeko, commissar of Commerce and Industry in Kyiv, is a witness to her boss's murder by a colleague during an argument over the "spoils" of their corrupt city schemes. Suddenly, she finds herself on the run.

With the help of a young agronomist, Oleksander Pylyp, Katya manages to escape Kyiv to Oleksander's village, Bila Sich. While hiding from her pursuer and the police, both she and Oleksander find themselves in the middle of a larger turmoil - the Communist Party's attempt to collectivize individual land holdings into a state farm.