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Book 1: Dekker's Villa
As is typical of Yuriy Vynnychuk, Dekker's Villa masterfully balances on the edge of retro-detective and political thriller - just as the book's characters balance in an uncertain limbo just a few days before the outbreak of World War II. A whirlwind of dramatic events and vivid humour, deep knowledge of the secret life of pre-war Lviv, luscious language, criminal and love intrigues - all this the reader will find in the new novel by a recognised master.
Book 2. The Melody of Coffee in the Tone of Cardamom
The novel is the basis for the famous author's novel.
The novel became the basis for the historical drama Coffee with Cardamom produced by Solar Media Entertainment in cooperation with STB TV channel and with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency and the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The male lead is played by Polish actor Pawel Delong, known for his films Schindler's List and Home. His partner on the set was Olena Lavreniuk, known for the films Egregor and 11 Children from Morshyn. It is this actress that the author of the novel Natalia Gurnitskaya considers to be an ideal candidate for the role of the main character.
A dramatic story of a young girl's forbidden love for a married Polish nobleman much older than her, set in the atmosphere of nineteenth-century Lviv! What is it - a fickle passion or true feelings? For her, it is the first love, for him, perhaps, the last... Will the lovers get a chance to change their fate, stay together, and is it possible to build happiness while teetering on the edge of the abyss and breaking all possible prohibitions?
Book 3: The Tango of Death
"Tango of Death" is one of the most significant novels of the times of Independence. The
events of the novel by the leading Ukrainian writer Yuriy Vynnychuk unfold in two storylines. In pre-war Lviv and during the Second World War, four friends - a Ukrainian, a Pole, a German, and a Jew, whose parents were soldiers in the Ukrainian People's Republic army and died in 1921 near Bazar - go through various adventures, fall in love, fight, but do not betray their friendship in any cataclysmic event.
At the same time, other events are happening in our days with other heroes, and only in the finale will these two storylines possibly converge...
Book 4. The Mistress from Rynok Square
Popular Ukrainian writer Andriy Kokotyukha continues his series of historical detectives set against the colourful backdrop of old Lviv. This time, one of the author's favourite characters, Klym Koshovyi, finds himself in prison. The Galician capital is also drawn into the terrible whirlwind of the First World War. The city has been captured by Russian troops, there is cold, a catastrophic shortage of food and numerous arrests. But an experienced detective gets a chance to get out. To do this, he must quietly investigate the murder of the mistress of a Russian general staff officer. The lover was supposedly the last person to visit her apartment on Rynok Square, but it turns out that Bozhena Mikulska had shown her affection to other men as well. The domestic criminal case further and further involves spies, traitors, military secrets, and many, many unpredictable moments.
