Author
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Russian writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, whose Erast Fandorin novels are some of the most stylish historical mysteries written in any language in the last thirty years. The early Fandorin titles (The Winter Queen, Murder on the Leviathan, The Death of Achilles) are essential.
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2003-2008
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The Winter Queen
by Boris Akunin
The first Erast Fandorin novel. A young clerk in 1876 Moscow investigates an apparent suicide and falls down a labyrinth.
Murder on the Leviathan
by Boris Akunin
Akunin doing locked-room mystery on a Suez-bound steamer in 1878. Multiple narrators, a French detective, and Fandorin in supporting position.
The Turkish Gambit
by Boris Akunin
Fandorin on the Russo-Turkish War. War-correspondent mystery with deep affection for Tolstoy.
The Death of Achilles
by Boris Akunin
The fourth Fandorin novel. Boris Akunin doing the political thriller, with a wonderful villain and the most action-heavy of the early entries.
Pelagia and the Black Monk
by Boris Akunin
The second Sister Pelagia mystery. A ghost on a Volga island, an Athanasian monastery, and Akunin in full Dostoyevsky mode.
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
by Boris Akunin
A nun-detective in 19th century Russia investigating a poisoned dog. Funnier and warmer than that summary suggests.
Special Assignments
by Boris Akunin
Two Fandorin novellas in one volume. Akunin writing pastiche so well it stops being pastiche.
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The first Erast Fandorin novel. A young clerk in 1876 Moscow investigates an apparent suicide and falls down a labyrinth.
Akunin doing locked-room mystery on a Suez-bound steamer in 1878. Multiple narrators, a French detective, and Fandorin in supporting position.
Fandorin on the Russo-Turkish War. War-correspondent mystery with deep affection for Tolstoy.
The fourth Fandorin novel. Boris Akunin doing the political thriller, with a wonderful villain and the most action-heavy of the early entries.
The second Sister Pelagia mystery. A ghost on a Volga island, an Athanasian monastery, and Akunin in full Dostoyevsky mode.
A nun-detective in 19th century Russia investigating a poisoned dog. Funnier and warmer than that summary suggests.
Two Fandorin novellas in one volume. Akunin writing pastiche so well it stops being pastiche.