![—John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air on <em>Death of a Nightingale</em>](https://sohopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blog-00.png)
[Nina] joins the sisterhood of run-amok heroines like Homeland’s Carrie Mathison and Lisbeth Salander of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Nina doesn’t just have a bee in her bonnet — she has a whole hive. And it’s buzzing away in her latest adventure, Death of a Nightingale, an elaborately plotted page-turner that flits from today’s liberal-minded Denmark and mobbed-up Ukraine to the starvation-racked Soviet Union of the Stalinist ’30s.