Reading Child 44

Child 44 (published in 2008) is a thriller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)) novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel) by British writer Tom Rob Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rob_Smith). This is the first novel in a trilogy featuring former MGB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_for_State_Security_(Soviet_Union)) Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Joseph Stalin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin)'s Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union).