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  Erast Fandorin: Book 4

  The Death of Achilles

  by Boris Akunin

  In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin’s old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev (“Achilles” to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his armchair by an... (more)
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  Erast Fandorin: Book 1

  The Winter Queen

  (Azazel)

  by Boris Akunin

  This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation... (more)
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  Erast Fandorin: Book 3

  Murder on the Leviathan

  by Boris Akunin

  Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby’s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner “Papa” Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan , a gigantic steamship soon to... (more)
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  Murder in Clichy (Soho Crime)

  by Cara Black

  Praise for the Aimée Leduc series: “The buzz . . . is partly about her heroine’s hip, next-generation, cutting-edge investigations and partly about Paris, a setting of unrivaled charm.”— Houston Chronicle “If the cobblestones could talk, they might tell a tale as haunting as the one Cara Black spins.” — The New York Times Book Review “Will have readers on pins and needles.”— San Francisco Chronicle “One... (more)
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  Erast Fandorin: Book 2

  The Turkish Gambit

  by Boris Akunin

  “<An> elegantly spun yarn . . . Akunin’s wonderful novels are always intricately webbed and plotted.” –The Providence Journal It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin stumbles upon his most confounding case. Its difficulties are only compounded by the presence... (more)
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  Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

  by Cara Black

  Praise for the Aimée Leduc series:   “One of the best heroines in crime fiction.”—Lee Child   “The Parisienne Kinsey Millhone.”— Los Angeles Times   “One of the best new writers in the field today.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “Haunting.”— The New York Times Book Review   Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an... (more)
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  Murder In The Sentier

  by Cara Black

  Detective Aimée Leduc fears that a group reminiscent of the 1960s Red Terror gang is on the loose—and her long-lost mother may just be one of them.
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  MURDER IN BELLEVILLE-C (Aimee Leduc Investigation)

  by Cara Black

  Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimee barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.
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  Murder in the Bastille (Aimee Leduc Investigation (Paperback))

  by Cara Black

  "Cara Black books are good companions, and Murder in the Bastille especially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can't go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you."-Alan Furst "Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city's historical streets and byways with their... (more)
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  Murder in Montmartre (Soho Crime)

  by Cara Black

  “Chilling. . . . The book vividly depicts a gritty, working-class part of Paris. . . . Black succeeds in making the reader feel the damp, the snow, the fear.”— Publishers Weekly   “I always wondered why I used to quicken my step in Montmartre. After reading Cara Black’s wonderful book, now I know. As atmospheric as anything by John le Carré.”—Philip Kerr, author of Berlin Noir   Aimée’s childhood friend,... (more)
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  Murder in the Marais: An Aimee Leduc Investigation

  by Cara Black

  Aime Leduc, the intrepid young French-American detective, is hired to investigate the grisly murder of an old Jewish woman in the Marais district of Paris. Her undercover search leads to a neo-Nazi group and requires that she play a dangerous game involving current politics and old war crimes.
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  Leviathan

  by Boris Akunin

  On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 First Class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten, and they are forced... (more)