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- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Formula One driver Remy Sabatino is leading the Drivers’ Championship, in a car that is the quickest of the season by far. But that also means Sabatino’s Russian teammate is the fastest too…Their rivalry couldn’t be more toxic ahead...
Love in the strangest of places
- Location(s): Bangkok, London, Moscow
Dan changes his mind on holiday to Bangkok. He sees the girls and the drinks and forgets about work with the rest but something is not right. He returns to London and takes the chance of redundancy when it...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A highly topical thriller about a Russian plot to cut the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Also, a passionate love story between two people determined to stop this cataclysmic act. Clive Franklin, a Russian language...
The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England, Martha marries Kit – who is gay. Having a wife could keep him safe in Moscow in his diplomatic post. As Martha tries to understand...
- Location(s): Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s -2000s
That’s what the Russians call them – the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 1900s
They lay peacefully, even artfully, under their thawing crust of ice, the centre one on its back, hands folded as if for a religious funeral, the other two turned, arms out under the ice like flanking emblems on embossed...
Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China, Hong Kong, Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
China, the eve of the September 11 attacks. A powerful cyber weapon is about to be released. Only one man can stop it … Journalist and SIS (MI6) contract agent George Quant arrives on the run in Beijing. Estranged...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
“crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings.” Dirty dealings in the middle of the night, in the snow, very louche, stereotypical Moscow? Judge for yourself
- Location(s): Courchevel, Italy, Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of...