Read the first of the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels: The Winter Queen (or Azazel in Russian). I like it given that it has a mix of spy intrigue, crime and historical backdrop which lends it a bit of depth but at the same time is very engaging and easy to read. The protagonist Erast Fandorin is a police officer with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Moscow police force. What interests me is that the author Boris Akunin conceived the series to demonstrate each of the genres of detective fiction, of which he identified 16 of them and hence the series is supposed to run through 16 books. The first few books have been translated into English.
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