Boris Akunin - Böcker

CRIMEA, 1914 When the Tzar's head of security is assassinated, Erast Fandorin is called to investigate: the killer has been overheard mentioning a 'black city' so Fandorin and his trusty companion, Masa, head to Baku, the burgeoning Russian capita...

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The latest book in the internationally bestselling Erast Fandorin Mysteries series'Readers can expect prime Akunin - ingenious, twisty, exotic' Daily Mail Crimea, 1914. When the Tzar's head of security is assassinated, Fandorin is called to invest...

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RUSSIA, 1918 The young Soviet state is in turmoil. Chekists walk along the streets. Hunger, cold and mud crawl away in the former aristocratic quarters of Moscow. The old order has been turned upside down, leaving room for political infighting and...

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THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES IN THE BESTSELLING ERAST FANDORIN SERIES1 THE WINTER QUEEN'Think Tolstoy writing James Bond with the logical rigour of Sherlock Holmes' GUARDIANMoscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's ...

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Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation D...

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Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby’s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner “Papa” Gauche recovers only one p...

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“Pelagia’s family likeness to Father Brown and Miss Marple is marked, and reading about her supplies a similarly decorous pleasure.”–The Literary ReviewIn a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth century, Bishop Mit...

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In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. “The Jack of Spades” is a civilized swindler who has c...

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The ship carrying the devout to Jerusalem has run into rough waters. Onboard is Manuila, controversial leader of the “Foundlings,” a sect that worships him as the Messiah. But soon the polarizing leader is no longer a passenger or a pr...

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To Kill a Serpent in the Shell dramatizes the final year of Tsarevna Sofia's regency, interrogating Russia's history while subtly confronting the Russia of today. The play, both a riddle and a fantasy, depicts the political rivalry between the reg...

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Now Moscow has its own ?Suicide society?. And it''s not some lame joke of decadent esthetes. In practice, it is a real conveyor of death ? bodies of self-murderers are found in Moscow more and more often. In their suicide notes almost all of them ...

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It is an interesting occurrence in literature, when Erast Petrovich Fandorin has to enquire into two matters simultaneously. The action in "e;He Lover of Death"e; takes place at the same time as in the novel "e;She Lover of Death"e...

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The scene of the novel is laid in 1914 ? just before the First World War. Erast Petrovich Fandorin is quietly taking a rest in a hotel suite in Yalta. Suddenly, the local town governor, general Dumbadze, simply rushes in with terrible news ? witne...

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Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniiu novuiu knigu Borisa Akunina o prikliucheniiakh Erasta Fandorina. Kniga vkliuchaet v sebia tri povesti: "Planeta Voda", "Parus odinokii" i "Kuda zh nam plyt'?". Po avtorskoi klassifikatsii ...

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