Bad Day in Minsk

Bad Day in Minsk
First edition
Author	Jonathan Pinnock
Cover artist	kid-ethic
Language	English
Publisher	Farrago Books
Publication date	2021
ISBN	978-1-78842-303-8
Preceded by	The Riddle of the Fractal Monks

Bad Day in Minsk is a book by Jonathan Pinnock. It is the fourth in the Mathematical Mystery series and was published by Farrago Books in April 2021.

Blurb

High Jinks in Minsk

Tom Winscombe is having a bad day. Trapped at the top of the tallest building in Minsk while a lethal battle between several mafia factions plays out beneath him, he contemplates the sequence of events that brought him here, starting with the botched raid on a secretive think tank and ending up in the middle of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

More importantly, he wonders how he’s going to get out of this alive when the one person who can help is currently not speaking to him.

Join Tom and a cast of disreputable and downright dangerous characters in this witty thriller set in a murky world of murder, mystery and complex equations.

Critical Reception

The reception to the book was generally extremely favourable.

Summary of Plot

Dorothy and Tom arrive at Arkady's flat to discuss recent developments regarding the Institute for Progress and Development. Arkady's niece Katya is also there. Arkady starts by revealing that - as suspected - his friend Sergei removed the Vavasor papers from the briefcase given to Tom at the climax of the events described in The Truth About Archie and Pye and were thus saved from the subsequent explosion. However, Sergei did not, as anticipated, manage to return the papers to Isaac Vavasor as he was forced to go into hiding. More to come.