Natalya Alexandrova is the collective pseudonym of the husband-and-wife team Natalya and Alexander Tankov. Behind them are more than sixty detective novels that uncover the mysteries of history in the present day. Natalya Alexandrova’s novels are often adapted into historical detective series for Russian channels.
From the master of artifact detective stories—tales whose plots revolve around ancient objects endowed with ominous power.
Johannes Gutenberg invented printing more than six hundred years ago, becoming the first printer in Europe. That is why his personal seal has unique power and is worth a fortune today…
Zhenya Kukushkina works at a small book publishing house and is very afraid of ghosts. And yet she often has to deal with them. In the abandoned Third Shop, which she often has to visit for work, legend has it that ghosts dwell there—the employees who died under terrible circumstances. Zhenya often hears unfamiliar voices there and prudently leaves the ghosts a small offering. Today, to her horror, Zhenya discovered a very real corpse of a man with a scar in the dreadful shop, and an ancient seal…