Boris Akunin, trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Mysterious, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2781-5
Set in 1896, Akunin’s excellent seventh Fandorin mystery (after The State Counsellor) finds the brilliant investigator back in Moscow just in time to prevent some thugs from abducting Xenia Georgievna, the daughter of Georgii Alexandrovich, the...
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Boris Akunin, Author, B. Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Random $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6051-1
Akunin writes like a hybrid of Caleb Carr, Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Peters in his second mystery to be published in the U.S., set on the maiden voyage of the British luxury ship Leviathan
, en route to India in the spring of 1878. Akunin's...
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Boris Akunin, Author, B. Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Random $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6050-4
If chatty digressions on love and war tend to slow the third Erast Fandorin historical to appear in the U.S. (after 2004's Murder on the Leviathan
), Russian author Akunin does a superb job of rendering the immediacy of battle in the 1877–1
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Boris Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Random $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8129-6880-4
Set in 1882, Russian author Akunin's fourth novel to feature Erast Petrovich Fandorin (after 2005's The Turkish Gambit
) consists of two parts that read like different books. In part one, the 26-year-old special agent comes to Moscow to...
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Boris Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Random $9.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7513-0
Set in the late 19th century, this charming, highly unusual whodunit from Russian author Akunin (the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili) introduces Sister Pelagia, a young nun in a remote Russian province far removed from the intrigue of the czarist
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Boris Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator . Random $13.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7860-5
In this thrilling collection of two novellas, Akunin (The Winter Queen
) pits Erast Fandorin, his brilliant Russian detective who serves as the deputy for special assignments to the governor-general of czarist Moscow, against two different but...
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Boris Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Random/Mortalis $14 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7514-7
Akunin, best known for his Erast Fandorin series (Special Assignments
, etc.), has created another memorable sleuth in Sister Pelagia, a 19th-century Russian nun whose insights into human nature and curiosity will remind many of G.K. Chesterton&
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Boris Akunin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Random $14 (411p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7515-4
After the brilliant triumph of 2008's Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk
, Akunin's third and final Sister Pelagia mystery disappoints, in part because the 19th-century nun has little opportunity to display her deductive skills. Pelagia'
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Boris Akunin, trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Mysterious, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4814-8
Akunin’s intriguing, if flawed, eighth mystery featuring investigator Erast Fandorin (after 2019’s The Coronation) opens with a series of newspaper articles detailing several tragic deaths in 1900 Moscow. After a “latter-day Romeo and Juliet” take...
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