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All the World's a Stage by Boris Akunin; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Erast Fandorin Mysteries Ser.
Eliza Altairsky-Lointaine is the toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress in an infamous theatre troupe. The estranged wife of a descendant of Genghis Khan, her love life is as colourful as the parts she plays: her ex-husband has threatened to kill anyone who courts her. He appears to be making goo ...Show more
Black City by Boris Akunin; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
CRIMEA, 1914 When the Tzar's head of security is assassinated, Erast Fandorin is called to investigate: the killer has been overheard mentioning a 'black city' so Fandorin and his trusty companion, Masa, head to Baku, the burgeoning Russian capital of oil. But from the moment they arrive in the city - ...Show more
He Lover of Death: An Erast Fandorin Mystery by Boris Akunin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ra ...Show more
He Lover of Death: An Erast Fandorin Mystery (#9) by Boris Akunin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ra ...Show more
Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Erast Fandorin Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 'Akunin is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes...The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a ...Show more
Pelagia and the Black Monk by Boris Akunin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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 dark, ...Show more
Pelagia and the Black Monk by Boris Akunin
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Fresh from solving the case of The White Bulldog, Pelagia is approached by a mysterious, black-hooded monk, who begs her to investigate a series of murders that have taken place in his all-male island monastery.'The plot is lively and full of twists, the characters are strong, the denouement is exciting ...Show more
Pelagia and the Red Rooster by Boris Akunin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways - Sister Pelagia finds herself aboard a steamer dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But a brutal murder in the next cabin spells the end of her sleuthing retirement, and the s ...Show more
Pelagia and the Red Rooster (#3 Sister Pelagia series) by Boris Akunin (tr from Russian Andrew Bromfield)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Pelagia - bespectacled, freckled, red-haired, extraordinarily clumsy and constantly knitting - teaches gymnastics and literature, and in her spare time solves crimes. In this novel, Pelagia finds herself investigating a self-proclaimed Russian prophet, Manuila and his followers, who deny Jesus Christ an ...Show more
Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Boris Akunin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: good
Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling author, Boris Akunin.
She Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Still a persona non grata in Moscow, ostracised by the authorities and shamed by the very qualified success of his last mission, Fandorin is back in his most underground enquiry to date. There's been rising consternation in fin-de-siecle Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. A ...Show more
Special Assignments by Boris Akunin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886, and the other a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, maniacal ob ...Show more