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An Erast Fandorin novel
by Boris Akunin
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Published Jan 2016
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by Claude Izner
Published Sep 2009
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by R. N. Morris
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsFollowing in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed novel The Gentle Axe, featuring the detective Porfiry Petrovich in another atmospheric and gripping slice of nineteenth-century Russia
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by Gyles Brandreth
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. (UK title: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders). Published in the USA simultaneously in hardcover and paperback.
by Qiu Xiaolong
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsThe fourth book in the Inspector Chen series, this unusual and compelling crime novel blends character, poetry, insights into Chinese society and culture, and food with a compelling plot.
by Joanne Harris
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA murder-mystery set in an exclusive English boarding school, where somebody's dark past may lead to the school's destruction.
by Priscilla Royal
Published Jan 2006
Read Reviews'With its intriguing plot, chilling conclusion and characters who exhibit universal and timeless feelings, this fresh first has all the potential to evolve into a series as enduring as Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael books.'
by Donna Leon
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsA riveting, pitch-perfect murder mysterythe work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring contemporary Venice in exquisite and alluring detail, this is widely hailed as the finest installment yet of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series.
by Laurie R. King
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsA brilliant blend of traditional (Sherlock)Holmesian myth, startling originality, complex plotting, and unforgettable characters set against a fully realized early-twentieth-century world.
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