Search - The Death of Achilles (Erast Fandorin, Bk 4)

A nice thing about series mysteries is the continuity of characters among the volumes. One grows accustomed to their faces and one expects they'll be back, if not the next time you read one of the series, then soon enough.

Bah! Humbug! sayeth Boris, happily killing off and abandoning people through the multi-year festival that is this entertaining and readable series. (Andrew Bromfield, the translator, deserves many kudos for producing such readable and thoroughly enjoyable translations.) This book's title is the clue to who dies this time, but I won't spoil it for the as-yet-uninitiated. I will, however, point them in the direction of The Winter Queen and encourage them not to shilly-shally, but start reading soon.

If you need a synopsis of the story, they're all over the place, but I say get goin' and make reading this your March Spring treat.

A wonderful mystery set in 1880s Russia. It deserves all the rave reviews it received from The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, etc.