Murder in Montenegro is the fourth volume in a tetralogy of historical fiction that follows the investigations of Inspector Vasiliev and Sergeant Serov of the Moscow police into the plots to assassinate Alexander II, the pogroms in Kiev, and the Siberian exile system in the nineteenth century. This last volume combines history and fiction through breathless adventures in the Balkans, Western Europe, and Russia at the close of the Russo-Turkish War.

G.K. George is the nom de plume of Alfred J. Rieber. He has visited Russia many times and taught at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Budapest where he teaches at the Central European University.