Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.Brand-new stories by: Lena Eltang, Sergei Nosov, Alexander Kudriavstev, Andrei Kivinov, Julia Belomlinsky, Natalia Kurchatova, Ksenia Venglinskaya, Eugene Kogan, Anton Chizh, Vladimir Berezin, Andrei Rubanov, and others.From the introduction by Julia Goumen & Natalia Smirnova:"When you think of the most noir city in Russia, the name that springs to mind is St. Petersburg. This link between the place, its character, and the genre has become quite paradoxically the biggest challenge for the authors in this anthology, who must balance their work with the city's rich noir tradition and at the same time transform daily criminal headlines into a literary experience. Indeed, the tradition of noir writing in St. Petersburg features the greatest names of Russian literature...

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Rome Noir looks beyond the tourist facade of Italy's capital. This is the real city of Fellini, Pasolini, and countless other major artists who devoted their lives to depicting its grandeur and decadence.Brand-new stories from: Antonio Scurati, C.D. Formetta, Diego De Silva, Enrico Franceschini, Boosta, Francesca Mazzucato, Marcello Fois, Gianrico Carofiglio, Carlo Lucarelli, Maxim Jakubowski, Evelina Santangelo, Nicola LaGioia, Tommaso Pincio, Antonio Pascale, Nicoletta Vallorani, Giuseppe Genna, and others.Chiara Stangalino is an organizer of the Courmayeur Noir In Festival. She lives in Turin, Italy.Maxim Jakubowski is a British editor and writer. He reviews crime fiction for the Guardian and runs London's Crime Scene Festival.

He's a bad boy billionaire...and the boss. When Landry Tobin starts her new job, she's shocked to discover that a man she had a steamy one night stand with is now her rich, powerful boss. And he's sexier than ever. Maxim Sokolov is a hot Russian with a fiery temper who always gets what he wants. He knows his attraction to his innocent new employee is forbidden...so why can’t he stay away? Landry can't give in to the fire inside her -- she’s here for business, not pleasure. Maxim wants what he can't have and will stop at nothing to get it. But will her past destroy them both? Note: Bad Russian Boss is 50k of passionate, mafia romance between an innocent new employee and her sexy, dominant boss. It includes 1 exclusive 50k mafia romance novella, Mobster's Revenge Baby.

Joe Shelby — a brilliant and daring combat reporter for a big magazine he refers to as "the comic" — is an Englishman who is at home only in the world's trouble spots — Chechnya, Rwanda, Gaza — where he is face-to-face with murder, starvation, war crimes and the sound of bullets whistling past his ears. Now, after a life of triumphs, he must confront challenges he never imagined: lost love, incurable illness and failure both in his work and on his beloved high mountains.His partner is glamorous French photographer and former fashion model Faria Duclos: beautiful, cool, sexy and wildly intoxicated by taking incredible risks as she puts her life in jeopardy to capture with her battered Leica camera both war's killers and their victims — a woman high on danger who, in her own way, loves Joe.Eva Kimberly is a privileged white Kenyan about to marry her childhood sweetheart, Jeremy Davenport, when Joe and Faria explode into her life at a fancy lawn party given by her wealthy...

On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific - and controversial - contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon's eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the French army of 1812. In this thought-provoking new study, Napoleonic historian Alexander Mikaberidze reconsiders the 1812 campaign and retells the terrible story of the Borodino battle as it was seen from the Russian point of view. His original and painstakingly researched investigation of this critical episode in Napoleon's invasion of Russia provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the battle and a broader understanding of the underlying reasons for the eventual Russian triumph. REVIEWS "Alexander Mikaberidze is one of the most important young Napoleonic scholars in the US, and this book is just another reason why that is the case. ... does an outstanding job of telling the story. ... ...will be interesting to scholars and the 'just interested' alike. ... augmented by some outstanding graphics. ... What makes this book especially important, is the incredible breadth of sources used to produce it. ...gives readers at any level everything they could possibly want--and more. It belongs in anyone's Napoleonic library. " J. David Markham, Historian/Author, www.NapoleonicHistory.com

What if Catherine the Great never found her greatness and the Ottoman Empire destroyed Holy Mother Russia? In an alternate modern Russia surrounded by the still-powerful Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire of the Sun, a dead girl in a pink sweater draws disillusioned Detektiv Alexander Kazakov into an investigation that even the girl's mother wants him to abandon. Driven by the truth and a slowly rising body count, Kazakov must traverse a landscape of snow and brothels, and a civilization frozen by history to catch a killer no one suspects. After Yekaterina is the first in the Yekaterina Alternate History series set in the fictional Central Asian Country of Fergana.