By Molly Smith
In 1950’s Russia violence was not accepted as criminal; even murder. But when patterns suggesting the systematic killings of children appear, we witness detective, Leo Demidov, fight not only a battle with Stalin’s totalitarian state to try and solve these crimes, but an internal one as to whether the trusted system he had remained so loyal to all his life was really just an ineffectual and brutal dictatorship.   Continue reading Review of Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith