Cruz’s 11 Arkady Renko books, which deepen and darken with feeling as they go, are a testament to courage and a reminder of mortality.

Hotel Ukraine” is the 11th and last installment in the popular Arkady Renko series by Martin Cruz Smith. He launched the ...

My longevity is linked to Arkady’s." Martin Cruz Smith's final novel, Hotel Ukraine, published just this week, brings to a ...

Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82.

Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers ...

Martin Cruz Smith gave us thrillers with soul and silence that screamed. His final chapter arrives, but the echoes of his ...

As he did in “Gorky Park,” the initial book in his detective series, Martin Cruz Smith bookends his latest Arkady Renko adventure, “Stalin’s Ghost,” with scenes cloaked in snow. As ...

Martin Cruz Smith's investigator Arkady Renko has poked at the soft underbelly of the Russian Bear since Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union. Now middle-aged, the detective first introduced in ...

He wrote more than 30 novels, including an acclaimed series about Russian detective Arkady Renko. The first volume, “Gorky ...

Martin Cruz Smith, the acclaimed author whose Arkady Renko thrillers captivated readers for decades, has died at the age of ...