The State Counsellor - Boris Akunin

Pelagia and the White Bulldog - Boris Akunin

mystery of the poisoned bulldogs and find out whether the headless bodies really were murdered by the sect in question? And is the second murder linked to the first? Boris Akunin is better known for his Erast Fandorin books about a police investigator towards the end of the nineteenth century. This is the first book he has written in this series, although it seems that there are more to come. I did enjoy the first two Erast Fandorin books, before the series took a nosedive in quality. I hoped that with the beginning of a new series, Akunin would return to form. Unfortunately, I struggled to finish this book and I think I have finally given up on this author. Sister ...

The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin

and TV series. Akunin s books are set in 19th century Russia and star a new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, one Erast Fandorin. The author Boris Akunin, real name Grigory Chkartashvili, lives in Moscow. His first novel, written in 1998, was finished in six weeks. He has since produced an amazing 17 books, although few of these are as yet available in English. 11 of these star Erast Fandorin. Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct, has the rights to the Erast Fandorin books, so there is likely to be a film in the near future. The plot In Moscow in 1876, a student commits suicide in a park in front of several witnesses. It is later discovered that ...

Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin

My daughter visited me recently and seemed unable to take her nose out of the book she’d brought with her. Before she left she passed it to me with the suggestion that I might enjoy it. I glanced at it: a book translated from the original Russian about a fictional murder which took place in Paris in 1878 and openly described as pastiche? I thought not, but dropped it on the pile of books waiting to be read. Then came the night when there was nothing else to read. I picked it up – and couldn’t put it down. On a March evening in 1878 Lord Littleby is found battered to death in his Paris home. His eight servants and two of their children are found to have died from ...