The Winter Queen

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE MULTI-MILLION COPY, INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING ERAST FANDORIN MYSTERIES SERIES''A sparkling romp of a story'' TLS''In Russia Boris Akunin is roughly the counterpart of John ...

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE MULTI-MILLION COPY, INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING ERAST FANDORIN MYSTERIES SERIES''A sparkling romp of a story'' TLS''In Russia Boris Akunin is roughly the counterpart of John Grisham'' TIME''Think Tolstoy writing James Bond with the logical rigour of Sherlock Holmes'' GUARDIANMoscow 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 considerable fortune.Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Depa