Boris Akunin – The Winter queen (05-046)

Boris Akunin – The Winter queen (05-046)

Akunin apparently is a major best-seller in Russia at the moment. This book is the first in a series of mysteries, starring Erast Fandorin. Crime stories based in the late 19th century, probably not coincidentally the time when the major Russian authors published several classics.

A suicide seems exactly that to most bystanders and the police as well. Not to our hero, who tries to find out what happened before the suicide. He travels to London and St. Petersburg, bumps into a global conspiracy and solves the mystery, though a lot happens before he is that far.

I loved reading several Russian authors, but I am afraid that Akunin will not be in my list of writers I will follow in the future. The book never really had me on the edge of my seat, never managed to drag me into it.

Number: 05-046
Title: The winter queen
Author: Boris Akunin
Language: English (Orig.: Russian)
Year: 2003 (Orig.: 1998)
# Pages: 245 (8765)
Category: Whodunnit
ISBN: 0-8129-7221-X