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Original Title:	Пелагия и черный монах (Провинциальный детектив)
ISBN:	0297850865 (ISBN13: 9780297850861)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sister Pelagia Mysteries #2

Pelagia and the Black Monk (Sister Pelagia Mysteries #2)

Boris Akunin

Hardcover | Pages: 236 pages

Rating: 4 | 1544 Users | 95 Reviews

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Title	:	Pelagia and the Black Monk (Sister Pelagia Mysteries #2)
Author	:	Boris Akunin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Mystery. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime. Detective

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Just as the dust from the case of the White Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up once again by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks the help of the bishop, Mitrofanii.

The monks have been troubled by visions of a dark, hooded figure that appears to walk on the waters of the vast Blue Lake surrounding their monastery. Sceptical of ghost stories, Mitrofanii sends first his clever young ward, then two of his most trusted advisors, to investigate the mystery. All meet with unexpected fates.

Finally Sister Pelagia takes matters into her own hands and, adopting a number of ingenious disguises, she ventures across the Blue Lake in search of answers. As she delves deeper into the layers of secrecy that cloak the islanders, and as the body count continues to rise, Pelagia begins to realise that an encounter with a ghost may be the least of her problems...

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I liked this one a lot less than the first book, Pelagia and the White Bulldog. Sister Pelagia doesn't do much except for sit around and look anxious for the first 200 pages or so. Once she starts investigating the mystery and gets actively involved, then the narrative picks up and becomes fun and exciting to read. I still adore her character and wish that the first 200 pages had more action for her character. Akunin's clever and humorous writing does show through the translation.

Although I liked this with the twists and turns at the end it didn't involve me as much as the first book.

This second book in the Sister Pelagia series is a captivating mystery that kept me engaged to the very end, which was not at all what I had come to expect from the development of the story. I appreciate that Akunin has created a female protagonist who is intelligent and humble. For someone from a male-dominated society I think that is a particularly positive achievement. I hope that Akunin will write more Sister Pelagia tales. I would like to read them in Russian some day. I would agree with

Hmmm. A different kind of mystery from the Russian author Boris Akunin, the pseudonym chosen deliberately to mimic Bakunin from the Revoluntionary Days. It is somewhat fantastical, but not the magical realism of the South American authors. I found that keeping track of all the characters with their varying Russian names a bit confusing. Alexi Stepanovich is sometimes called by that name, sometimes Aloshya, and sometimes Lentochkin, his last name. Of combinations of the above. And then the main

I liked this one probably even more than the first book, Pelagia and the White Bulldog and sister Pelagia is still my fav heroine, maybe even of the whole reading year? I think so. Akunin created such an admirable and smart character and though archbishop Mitrofany is also a full blooded character, she basically drives the whole story alone and absolutely steals the show. Everything and everybody else is just a decoration for her to shine. This time she has a mystical mystery to uncover and the



Overall, a witty & erudite book, crammed full of literary allusions andenough plot twists and turns to make you dizzy! Bishop Mitrofanii is a priceless creation and sister Pelagia is easily in that rarified league of amateur superstar sleuths, some of whose other members are Miss Jane Marple, Brother Cadfael, Sister Agatha and Father Brown.In THE BLACK MONK, Pelagia goes in disguise to a remote monastic island to discover the truth behind reports of hauntings and a curse. With her usual