Snake (Lazarus 2)

Recommended for readers aged 16+

Lazarus. The Serpent is an alternate history fantasy about early 20th-century Kyiv by Ukrainian writer Svitlana Taratorina. Investigator Oleksandr Tiurin is getting his life in order. But the city knows no peace: vampires, werewolves, mavky, and other creatures of the unclean are busy with their affairs, while revolutionaries are hatching new plans. Thus, the hero's morning begins with news of a terrorist attack at the sugar magnate's warehouses. The boundary between supernatural beings and humans is held in a precarious balance of relations, but changes are coming to the Empire… Meanwhile, Dr. Vasylina Ives tries to stop a mysterious epidemic, and the werewolf Parfentii Topchiy returns to his pack, where he is anything but welcome. The world is seething and changing, awaiting the rebirth of the mighty Serpent…