Set in 1876 Moscow, THE WINTER QUEEN is nominally a detective story in which a dashing young Sherlock Holmes-like detective gets at the truth behind a series of suicides by using his considerable wits. A New York Times Notable Book fo...

In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. “The Jack of Spades” is a civilized swind...

When he hears that one of his aunt's rare white bulldogs has been poisoned, Monsignore Mitrofanij, the orthodox bishop of a remote Russian province on the Volga, enlists the assistance of the resourceful Sister Pelagia to take on a co...