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Crash
Author(s): Toby Vintcent
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...
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Love in the strangest of places
Author(s): M Alexander
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...
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Snowdrops
Author(s): A D Miller
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...
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Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai
Author(s): Michael Wreford
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...
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Moscow Noir
Author(s): Natalia Smirnova
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
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Moscow Rules
Author(s): Daniel Silva
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...
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One Night in Winter
Author(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
Location(s): Moscow
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 1945
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this...
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The End of Days
Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
Location(s): Eastern Europe, Europe, Moscow
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 20th Century
‘We are born and we die – but many things could happen in between. Which life do we end up living?’ From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century...
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The Holy Thief
Author(s): William Ryan
Location(s): Moscow
Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
Era(s): 1930s
‘Set in 1936, Ryan’s impressive debut introduces Capt. Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Militia’s Criminal Investigation Division, who looks into the murder of a young woman found butchered in a church… Ryan, who merits comparison to Tom Rob Smith,...
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The Master and Margarita
Author(s): Mikhail Bulgakov
Location(s): Moscow
Genre(s): Fantasy
Era(s): Second half 20th century
In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil – to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev – is very much alive. As death and destruction spread...
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