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She lover of death / Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield.
"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring-and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death-a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen one must await three signs from death before taking their own life. The resulting string of suicides has taken Moscow by storm, becoming fodder for sensational media coverage and widespread hysteria. As the group's numbers steadily dwindle, a mysterious newcomer appears. Immediately recognizable to the reader as the inimitable Fandorin, the newest member begins to sow doubt and discord from within, in order to ward Moscow's youth away from the lure of suicide and expose the sinister deception at the group's core. But will the gentleman detective be able to stop Columbine from taking action when she receives her three unmistakable signs? She Lover of Death is a fantastically entertaining murder mystery, where the murderer's weapons of choice are trickery and psychological manipulation"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802148148
- ISBN: 080214814X
- Physical Description: 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group. First published in Russian as Liubovnitsa smerti by Zakharov Publications, Moscow, Russia and Edizioni Frassinelli, Milan, Italy. Translated from the Russian. |
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Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |