by Boris Akunin · RANDOM HOUSE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780812968774
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«The Winter Queen» is Boris Akunin's historical mystery novel, published by Random House in paperback (264 pages, in English).
In 1876 Moscow, young detective Erast Fandorin investigates the apparent suicide of a wealthy student in the Alexander Gardens. The case soon proves to be more than an isolated incident and drags him into a conspiracy spanning Europe, in an intrigue full of twists with deadly implications. First instalment of the series starring Fandorin.
First novel in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Originally published in 1998 as «Azazel», this English edition is a 2004 reprint with translation by Andrew Bromfield.
Recommended for readers of historical crime fiction and for those wanting to start with the adventures of the celebrated Russian detective Erast Fandorin.
Grigori Chkhartishvili, better known by his pen name Boris Akunin, is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin detective novels. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia.
