Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them
- the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks most of them & homeless people who just give up & lie down into the whiteness & murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers. Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow he was seduced by Masha an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs & intimate dachas the human kindnesses & state-wide corruption. Yet as Nick fell for Masha he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous but life in Russia was addictive & it was too easy to bury secrets
- & corpses
- in the winter snows...