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Akunin, Boris

 
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Sinopsis

When a young student from a wealthy family unexpectedly commits suicide in the Alexander Gardens, Erast Fandorin of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police to investigate the supposedly open-and-shut case and discovers that the student's suicide is not an isolated case. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956; he is a philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese. He published his first detective stories in 1998 and in a very short time has become one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written nine Erast Fandorin novels to date, and is working on two other series as well. Akunin enjoys almost legendary popularity in Russia. He lives in Moscow.

ANDREW BROMFIELD was born in Hull in Yorkshire, England. He has lived in Moscow for long periods, where he co-founded and edited the literary journal Glas, and now lives and works in rural Surrey. He is best known for his acclaimed translations of the stories and novels of Victor Pelevin, including The Life of Insects, Buddha’s Little Finger, and Homo Zapiens.

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Set in 1870s Moscow, St. Petersburg, and London, The Winter Queen introduces Boris Akunin's internationally celebrated sleuth, Erast Fandorin, who soon realizes that the suicide of a wealthy student in Moscow's Alexander Gardens is not an open-and-shut case but, instead, the tip of a spectacular global conspiracy, with the deadliest of implications.

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