Andrew Bromfield
2) Homo zapiens
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a vast market ripe for exploitation. Everybody wants a piece of the action. But how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one brand of cola? "--Jacket.
Author
Series
Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1877 and Erast Fandorin must locate a spy within the Russian army ranks who threatens to change the course of the war.
Author
Series
Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In these two novellas, Erast Fandorin, 19th-century Russia's suavest sleuth, faces two formidable foes - one that steals money, the other, people's lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow-and in for a case that entangles him with the highest echelons of Romanov royalty. Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, who is fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During an afternoon stroll in the park, Georgii's daughter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When someone bashes in the head of Manuila, the messianic leader of a rogue Jewish sect, aboard a steamboat on which Pelagia happens to be a passenger, her observations prove useful to the investigating officer. After several attempts on her life, she's shipped off to Palestine, where she continues to look for the truth behind Manuila's murder.
Author
Series
Sister Pelagia mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth century, Bishop Mitrofanii must deal with a family crisis. After learning that one of his great aunt's beloved and rare white bulldogs has been poisoned, the Orthodox bishop knows there is only one detective clever enough to investigate the murder: Sister Pelagia.
10) Twilight watch
Author
Series
Night watch volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A visionary blend of urban fantasy and riveting thriller, set in contemporary Moscow. Night Watch and Day Watch revealed the "Others," an ancient race of supernatural beings--magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and healers--who live among us and swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. For a millennium, these opponents have coexisted in an uneasy truce, guarding each other and tottering on the brink of war. In Twilight Watch, the Others...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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 friend General Sobolev ("Achilles" to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his armchair by an apparent heart attack. But Fandorin suspects an unnatural...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
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" Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart Southampton on its maiden voyage...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring-and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death-a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen one...
14) New watch
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Light magician and high-ranking member of the Night Watch, Anton Gorodestsky, must find a way to keep his daughter safe after a young prophet awakens a long-slumbering monster.
15) Daywatch
Author
Series
World of watches volume 2
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Series
Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 6
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1891. The new governor-general of Siberia has been secreted away on a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. A blizzard rages outside as a mustachioed official climbs aboard near the city; with his trademark stutter, he introduces himself as State Counsellor Erast Fandorin. He then thrusts a dagger inscribed with the initials CG into the governor-general's heart and, tearing off his mustache, escapes out the carriage window. The head of the...
Author
Series
Sister Pelagia mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The monks of New Arafat believe the Black Monk that haunts their centuries-old island monastery is responsible for the death of one of their own. When the Black Monk claims more victims--including Bishop Mitrofanii's envoys--Sister Pelagia goes undercover to see exactly what person, or what spirit, is at the bottom of it all.
18) The doomed city
Author
Publisher
Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is...
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