Boris Akunin

The Death of Achilles: A Novel

by Boris Akunin

In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the...

Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel: A Novel

by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield

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...

Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

by Boris Akunin

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...

Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog: A Mystery

by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield

“Pelagia’s family likeness to Father Brown and Miss Marple is marked, and reading about her supplies a similarly decorous pleasure.”

–The Literary Review

In a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth...

Murder on the Leviathan: A Novel

by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield

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”...

The Winter Queen

by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield

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...

The Turkish Gambit: A Novel

by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield

“[Akunin] writes gloriously pre-Soviet prose, sophisticated and suffused in Slavic melanchioly and thoroughly worthy of nineteenth-century forebearers like Gogol and Chekhov.”

–Time

It is 1877, and war has...

Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk: A Novel

by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield

In the middle of the night, a disheveled and badly frightened monk arrives at the doorstep of Bishop Mitrofanii of Zavolzhsk, crying: “Something’s wrong at the Hermitage!” The Hermitage is the centuries-old...