Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith

I bought this book this summer to read myself, and have to add it to the high school library!

This is historical fiction set in Stalinist Russia in the 1950's. In Stalin's Russia there is no crime - crime is the product of Western capitalism. But children are disappearing, and Leo Demidov of the State Security Force secretly suspects a mass murderer is preying on innocent children. Leo risks his job, his family, and his life in his attempt to stop the murders.I couldn't put this down - it's interesting for the inside look at Stalinist Russia and the paranoid terror the state imposed on it's citizens. Leo's awakening conscience leads him to discover that the murderer isn't a stranger....