In the dying days of the nineteenth century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner. Meanwhile, in the nearby country estate of Drozdovka, one [...]

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, the famous gentleman sleuth.

Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a consi[...]

The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned, has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows. But Fandorin's efforts to steer clear of trouble are thwarted when he comes to the aid of Varvara Suvorova - a 'progressive' Russian woman[...]

Just as the dust from the case of the White Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up once again by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks the help of the bishop, Mitrofanii. The monks have been troubled by visions of a d[...]

General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim's chest and escapes through[...]

There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigato[...]

The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. Th[...]

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 homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin's old war-hero [...]

Fandorin gegen die Herrscher der Moskauer Unterwelt Moskau 1900: Senka schlägt sich als kleiner Dieb durch. Eines Tages findet er einen Schatz.Nun kannersichviele seiner Träume erfüllen. Und auch die schönste Frau Moskaus, die Geliebte des Herrschers der Unterwelt, scheint sich ihm zuzuwenden. D[...]

Proekt Borisa Akunina "Zhanry"- eto popytka sozdanija svoeobraznogo insektariuma zhanrovoj literatury, kazhdyj iz pestrykh vidov i podvidov kotoroj budet predstavlen odnim "klassicheskim" ekzempljarom. V etu entomologicheskuju kollektsiju vojdut "Detskaja kniga", "Shpionskij roman", "Fantastika", a [...]

"Smert na brudershaft" - nazvanie tsikla iz 10 povestej v eksperimentalnom zhanre "roman-kino", prizvannom sovmestit literaturnyj tekst s vizualnostju kinematografa. Russkij kontrrazvedchik dolzhen raskryt agenturnuju set. Smozhet li on radi etogo stat svoim v bogemnom klube-kabare "Deti Luny"? Ved [...]

V romane “Vremena goda”, dejstvie kotorogo peremeschaetsja iz junosti v starost i iz sovremennosti v proshloe, rasskazyvaetsja o tom, kak dobivatsja ispolnenija zhelanij i rasplachivatsja za eto; kak zhit ljubovju i kak zhit bez ljubvi; kak izbavitsja ot strakhov i videt bez pomoschi zreni[...]

Predstavljaem seriju "Prikljuchenija magistra"!Nikolasa Fandorina, magistra istoricheskikh nauk, i Korneliusa fon Dorna, tsarskogo mushketera, razdeljajut tri stoletija. No u nikh mnogo obschego: oba kogda-to priekhali v Moskvu, dazhe ne podozrevaja, kakie neverojatnye prikljuchenija ikh tut zhdut. [...]