Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved Death — so named for the life expectancy of her lovers. But as the bandit community balks at his success on both fronts, threats on his life begin to pour in. A dandy and his 'Chinese' sidekick seem to be taking an inordinate interest in Senka's welfare, and it becomes clear that those threatening Senka are linked to a spate of murders, grizzly even by underworld standards. Fandorin must unweave a tangled web of narcotics, false identities and organised crime — but can he survive an encounter with the ever-alluring Death unscathed? Find out in the darkest Fandorin to date!

Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, with three of his children. During an afternoon stroll, daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his oriental sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when they realise that four-year old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion. A ransom letter arrives from an international criminal demanding the handover of the Count Orlov, an enormous diamond on the royal sceptre which is due to play a part in the coronation. Can the gentleman detective find Mikhail in time?

There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon — that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigator hot on the heels of these disciples of the occult. Little do they realise that the latest 'convert' to their secret society, assuming the alias of a Japanese prince, is none other than Erast Fandorin. But when a young and naive provincial woman, Masha Mironova, becomes embroiled in the society, and Zhemalio dies a mysterious death, Fandorin must do more than merely infiltrate and observe. Especially when the spin of the Russian roulette wheel decrees that our dashing hero be the next to die by his own hand. Can Fandorin fake his own demise, all while outwitting the cult's dastardly leader?

Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg — and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways — Sister Pelagia finds herself aboard a steamer dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But a brutal murder in the next cabin spells the end of her sleuthing retirement, and the start of an investigation that will take her to the Holy Land and far beyond. Pelagia's journey is peppered with tales of miracles and roosters, and caves that act as portals to other worlds. But an assassin is closing in, pursuing the sister to the land of the Gospels where her criminal enquiry becomes a spiritual enquiry as she sets down her knitting needles to question the very foundations of her faith...

General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim's chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals, revolutionaries and traditionalists and good versus evil.

Fandorin ermittelt in der Moskauer Unterwelt Moskau 1900: Die größten Schurken buhlen um die Gunst der bezaubernden Geliebten des Gaunerfürsten — sie gilt als die schönste Frau der Stadt. Doch wen sie erhört, der stirbt. Auch Fandorin ist die geheimnisvolle Schöne nicht gleichgültig, und das heißt, daß er mit seinem Leben spielt. Ein Roman aus dem Milieu der Gauner und Prostituierten.

1905: Rußland steht im Krieg mit Japan. Als Mitarbeiter des Verkehrsministeriums hat Fandorin den Auftrag, die Militärtransporte auf der Transsibirischen Eisenbahnabzusichern. Aber wer hat Chancen gegen einen japanischen Meisterspion? Fandorins Erlebnisse als Vizekonsul in Japan 1878 erweisen sich auf geheimnisvolle Weise mit diesem Fall verwoben. Boris Akunin genießt in Rußland geradezu legendäre Popularität. Auch in Deutschland hat er Kultstatus. 2001 wurde er in Rußland zum Schriftsteller des Jahres gekürt, seine Bücher wurden bereits in 17 Sprachen übersetzt, weltweit wurden etwa 6 Millionen davon verkauft.