On another crime reading spree!Am really excited about making my way through another list having just discovered Boris Akunin’s Russian detective novels featuring the wonderfully named, Erast Fandorin. What a great name!
Am half way through the first book, The Winter Queen, and already totally hooked. The books are set in Russia in the early nineteenth century and feature the young detective Erast, who works in the Criminal Investigation Division of Moscow Police.
Akunin easily builds the suspense and evokes the atmosphere of Russia in 1876.
The chapters have the most entertaining subtitles, for example:
- Chapter Two, which consist entirely of a conversation
- Chapter Four, which tells of the ruinous power of beauty
I liked Erast straight away, he is clever and intelligent but also slightly vain. There is the hilarious scene involving a male whalebone corset!
There are 10 Erast Fandorin novels, which are still being translated into English. I can’t wait read more about his adventures and have the second book, The Turkish Gambit, on waiting for me on my shelf already!
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