Three corpses had been found in Moscow. But why the horrific mutilations? And why had they been buried in the snows of Gorky Park? It did indeed become a triple murder investigation for Chief Investigator Arkady Renko.

Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Renko's girlfriend Eva and his adopted son, Zhenya, seem to be slipping into danger.

Pasha Ivanov has been found dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment in Moscow. It seems like a straightforward suicide, but Inspector Arkady Renko, never one to take evidence at face value, refuses to drop the case, and there is something puzzling him: a mountain of salt found in Ivanov's wardrobe.

Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska: current status seaman (second class), his movements shadowed by those who know his past. Then, Renko is given a chance to reclaim his freedom - by investigating a lonely and very mysterious death.

The body, what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. The Cubans insisted that the body was his friend Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. Havana is a city of empty stones - not welcoming place if you're a Russian, particularly if you're a Russian investigating the death of another Russian.

It began with the unmourned death of Rosen, one of Moscow's new breed of black marketeers; seemingly a clear-cut case of murder. Although Renko has been recently reinstated at the Moscow Prosecutor's office, the case begins to slip from his grasp. But his determination never to let go leads him to Munich and Berlin - back into the life of Irina.

A murder threatens to force the police into a confrontation with New York's gypsy community. The cops are determined to pin the blame on a gypsy. But Roman Grey knows there is more to the case than the convenient closing of a crime file, and vows to bring the truly guilty to justice.

The body was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. The Cubans insisted that the body was his friend Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. Havana is not a welcoming place if you're a Russian, particularly if you're a Russian investigating the death of another Russian. But Arkady is used to being unpopular.

Harry Niles is a 'wild child', an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents. So Harry begins to lead his own life in the Tokyo underworld. In 1941, Japan is on the brink of war with the United States. Harry Niles has become a man of many faces. Allying himself with both sides, he treads a dangerous path.

On psychiatric rehabilitation in Siberia, Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska. His movements are being shadowed by those who know his past. Then Renko is given a chance to regain his freedom.

Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead ... But in the midst of a blizzard nothing is as it first appears to be.

From the author of GORKY PARK, a thriller, originally published in 1993, in which a soldier with powers of second sight is faced with a terrible decision when he is hired as the driver and bodyguard of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos.

Ivanov, one of Russia's richest oligarchs, is lying dead on the pavement outside his apartment in Moscow. His death, it seems, is a case of suicide. A mountain of salt found in Ivanov's wardrobe puzzles Investigator Renko. When the body of Ivanov's partner is discovered in a cemetery, it is the beginning of Renko's journey into the world of crime.

The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary was on display in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Guarded by many, including the NYPD and the gypsy, Roman Grey, a heist was impossible. But it happened, and murder, mayhem and all hell broke loose. By the author of "Gorky Park".

Intriguing stories of betrayal and deception, by the author of 'Nightwing', 'Gorky Park' and 'Red Square'.

By the author of "Gorky Park". This novel is the story of Jonathan Blair, an American adventurer cast adrift in Victorian England who must travel north to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young cleric - and confront his own heart of darkness.

In the Prosecutor's Office, Renko is looking into the murder of Rosen, a black marketeer. But all the witnesses to the car bomb that caused his death have disappeared, and Renko is taken off the case. But continuing the investigation, he is led to Irina, a woman he thought he'd lost forever.