Alexandra Marinina

Alexandra Marinina (2010)

Alexandra Marinina ( Russian Александра Маринина ., Scientific transliteration Aleksandra Marinina ) is a pseudonym for the Russian crime -author Marina Anatolevna Alexeyeva (russ. Марина Анатольевна Алексеева * 16th July 1957 in Lviv ).

Marinina studied law and worked in the militia for the Russian Interior Ministry (MWD) for 20 years . In 1992 she started writing detective novels. The serial heroine of most of the novels is Anastasija Kamenskaya, a criminalist with the Moscow militia.

Many of her books have been translated into German by the German writer Natascha Wodin .

Books published in German

• On unfamiliar territory - Anastasia’s first case
• The rest was silence - Anastasia’s second case
• With cards face down - Anastasija's third case
• Death and a little love - Anastasija's fourth case
• The hangman's hour - Anastasia’s fifth case
• Adverse Circumstances - Anastasia’s Sixth Case
• With fatal consequences - Anastasia’s seventh case
• In the face of death - Anastasia’s eighth fall
• The stolen dream - Anastasia’s worst case

The order of the German translation does not represent the order of the action. The sixth case is actually the first. So far, over 40 books by Marinina have been published in Russia.

Chronological order:

• Adverse circumstances
• On unfamiliar territory
• The stolen dream
• The rest was silence
• With cards face down
• Death and a little love
• With fatal consequences
• The executioner's hour
• In the face of death

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Marinina  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alexandra Marinina in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official Website (Russian)