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Byline: EMILY LAMBERT

CHILD 44

By Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster, pounds 12.99)

HOW do you investigate a murder when it is a crime to admit that murder can exist? Howdo you catch a murderer when the presumption of the guilt of all is the natural order?

In Child 44, Leo Stepanovich Demidov, an up-and-coming member of the State Security Force in Stalinist Russia, originally toes the party line: there can be no murder, for murder is a symptom of a capitalist society. The body of young boy found on the railway lines is ruled by his superiors ...

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