Boris Akounine

The State Counsellor is the sixth novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin. It is subtitled "political detective mystery". The State Counsellor was originally published in Russia in 2000. The English translation was published in January 2008.

The Turkish Gambit is the second novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels by Russian author Boris Akunin. It was published in Russia in 1998. The English translation by Andrew Bromfield was published in 2005 as third of Fandorin novels, after Murder on the Leviathan which follows it in the …