Boris Akunin is a successful Russian author who’s written a series of historical crime novels set in Tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th century. The Winter Queen introduces us to the young detective Erast Fandorin and his investigation into a seemingly motiveless suicide in a park. The story leads away from Moscow and St Petersburg by way of London, before returning, as a global conspiracy is uncovered.
I can thoroughly recommend this book. Sometimes the protagonist seems to stumbled from crisis to crisis, but you can’t fail to like him and enjoy the story where nothing is as it seems. I’m already looking forward to the paperback release of the follow up, Leviathan, later in the year.