S. Michael Russel to the dark heart of

to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves

A series of suicides

Lives are at stake and Ropa is running out of time

Then Pommes Frites breaks loose from his bedchamber to ravage the local canine ladies and Monsieur Pamplemousse finds himself on the receiving end of a heavily-loaded baguette

This is the world Erast Fandorin - the celebrated detective - wakes up to after three years in a coma

S. Michael Russel to the dark heart ofOne book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer