Good Reasons to Die

A thriller set in the radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone. Armed conflicts, economic collapse and ecological demands are interwoven with the hunt to find a deranged serial killer.

***Shortlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023***

''An excellent crime thriller with an explosive climax'' Bill Todd, The Sun


Nature is reclaiming Chernobyl. But the past is radioactive. . .

In a village close to Chernobyl, detectives Joseph Melnyk and Galina Novak uncover a man''s mutilated body hanging from a building. All clues left at the scene of the crime point to a double homicide that took place on the very night that the nuclear power plant exploded.

Doubtful of the abilities of the Ukrainian police, the murdered man''s father, a Moscow mafia boss, summons Rybalko, a Russian police officer of dubious morals, to conduct a parallel investigation to find and execute his son''s killer. Rybalko goes to Ukraine and recovers the corpse, which no-one has dared to touch because of its radioactive contamination.

Good Reasons to Die is a breath-taking thriller set in a dislocated Ukraine where armed conflicts, economic collapse and ecological demands are interwoven with the exhilarating hunt to find a deranged serial killer.

• | Author: Morgan Audic, Sam Taylor
• | Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781914495670
• | ISBN-10: 1914495675