Carner, Talia, (Hotel Moscow: A Riveting Literary Thriller of Women, Heritage, and Conspiracy in Post-Communist Russia [pb, William Morrow, 2015]) 978-0062388599 [Brooke Fielding, a thirty-eight year old New York investment manager and daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors, finds her life suddenly upended in late September 1993 when her job is unexpectedly put in jeopardy. Brooke accepts an invitation to join a friend on a mission to Moscow to teach entrepreneurial skills to Russian business women, which will also give her a chance to gain expertise in the new, vast emerging Russian market. Though excited by the opportunity to save her job and be one of the first Americans to visit Russia after the fall of communism, she also wonders what awaits her in the country that persecuted her mother just a generation ago.
United States · Fiction author
Talia Carner
Talia Carner (birth est. 1960?) – born in Tel Aviv, she is the author of six historical and psychological suspense novels, including Jerusalem Maiden, The Third Daughter, and The Boy with the Star Tattoo (published in 2024).
Inspired by the women she meets, Brooke becomes committed to helping them investigate the crime that threatens their businesses. But as the uprising of the Russian parliament against President Boris Yeltsin turns Moscow into a volatile war zone, Brooke will find that her involvement comes at a high cost. For in a city where “capitalism” is still a dirty word, where neighbors spy on neighbors and the new economy is in the hands of a few dangerous men, nothing Brooke does goes unnoticed—and a mistake in her past may now compromise her future. – Amazon]
Carner, Talia, (The Third Daughter [pb, William Morrow, 2019]) 978-0062896889 [illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century.