Du Maurier, Townsend Warner, three Elizabeths (Bowen, Taylor and Jane Howard) as well as lesser-known names such as Inez Holden and Attia Hosain. There is much to enjoy here.
A wonderful evocation of Leningrad in the 1930s, in which a series of murders and thefts of paintings from the Hermitage embroil Inspector Vasily Zaitsev with the Soviet secret police.