Murder on the Leviathan: Erast Fandorin 3 (Erast Fandorin Mysteries) - Hardcover

Pastiche of the highest order, absurd and completely gripping at the same time (Sunday Times)

Witty, thrilling and wholly unputdownable (Evening Standard)

Akunin is an outstanding novelist ... gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time (Daily Express)

Clever and fun (The Times)

Totally absorbing. (HOT STARS (OK MAGAZINE) - 27 March - 2 April)

[Akunin's} skill is such that he has fashioned a gripping page-turner from the improbabilities and extravagances of his plot. LEVIATHAN look set to create yet more fans for this most adaptable of heroes. (WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY)

This is a book you want to gallop through, pitting your wits against the author, desperate to find out who did it. At the same time, the accomplished writing (translated by Andrew Bromfield) is well worth lingering over. (DAILY MAIL (2.4.04))

Ingenious, diverting, sometimes brilliant take on an Agatha Christie-style whodunit...Escapist, exciting and altogether innocent. A lively, refreshing read. (Philip Oakes LITERARY REVIEW (April 2004))

Erast Fandorin has been called a 19th century James Bond, and there are similarities...but Fandorin is more human than Bond, and Akunin more witty than Fleming. His writing is spare and the plot's place in time and space is achieved through dialogue, internal monologue and mores rather than lavish description. (TELEGRAPH (3.4.04))

Completely gripping. (Joan Smith SUNDAY TIMES (4.4.04))