Marinina's story. Books by Alexandra Marinina in chronological order

Marina Anatolyevna Alekseeva was born on June 16, 1957 in the city of Lvov, Ukrainian SSR. Until 1971 she lived in Leningrad, since 1971 - in Moscow. She studied in English special schools (in Leningrad - No. 183, in Moscow - No. 17 and No. 9), as well as at the Leningrad Music School named after. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov.
In 1979, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and was assigned to the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. She began her career as a laboratory assistant, in 1980 she was appointed to the position of research assistant, and received the rank of police lieutenant. She studied the personality of a criminal with mental anomalies, as well as a criminal who committed repeated violent crimes.
In 1986 she defended her PhD thesis on the topic: “The personality of a person convicted of violent crimes and the prevention of special recidivism.”
Since 1987, she has been involved in crime analysis and forecasting. He has more than thirty scientific works, including the monograph “Crime and Crime Prevention in Moscow”, published by the United Nations Interregional Institute on Crime and Justice (UNICRI).
Since 1994, she worked as deputy head and editor-in-chief of the research and editorial and publishing department of the Moscow Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
In February 1998, she retired with the rank of police lieutenant colonel.
Her husband is police colonel Sergei Zatochny.

Creative activity.
In 1991, Marina Alekseeva, together with her colleague Alexander Gorkin, wrote the detective story “The Six-Winged Seraphim,” which was published in the magazine “Police” in the fall of 1992. The story was signed with the pseudonym “Alexandra Marinina,” made up of the authors’ names.
In December 1992, after the publication of “The Six-Winged Seraphim,” Marinina decided to try to write a book in the detective genre herself. The novel “Coincidence of Circumstances,” in which the main character of the future series of detective works by the author, detective officer of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department Anastasia Kamenskaya, first appeared, was written in December 1992 - January 1993 and published in the magazine “Police” in the fall of 1993. During 1993-1994, the stories “Game on a Foreign Field” and “Stolen Dream” were written.
In January 1995, Alexandra Marinina was approached by the Eksmo publishing house with a proposal to publish her works in the “Black Cat” series. The writer’s first book, published by Eksmo, appeared in April 1995, in which the stories “The Six-Winged Seraphim” and “The Reluctant Killer” were published. After this book, the rights to the story “The Six-Winged Seraphim” were not transferred to anyone, and the author is categorically against its further publication.
In 1995, Marinina was awarded the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs prize for the best work about the work of the Russian police (for the books “Death for the Sake of Death” and “Game on a Foreign Field”). In 1998, at the Moscow International Book Fair, she was recognized as “Writer of the Year” as the author whose books sold the largest number of copies in 1997, and in 1998 she won the Ogonyok magazine award in the “Success of the Year” category.
The first contract with foreign publishers was concluded by Marinina in 1997. Over the past three years, Alexandra Marinina’s books have been published in more than twenty languages.
A. Marinina's novels began to be filmed in 1999. The film company “Rekun-film” created the television series “Kamenskaya” based on eight novels by the writer, which was shown on national Russian television, as well as on television screens in Latvia, Ukraine, Germany and France. In 2002, the same company produced a continuation of the television series called “Kamenskaya 2” based on the next four novels by the author.
In 2005, Alexandra Marinina became the laureate of the VII national award for public recognition of women's achievements "Olympia" of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in the category "Literary Creativity" as "a woman whose literary creativity has become a striking event in Russian culture."
In August 2009, the master of action-packed prose released the first volume of a trilogy of family novels under the general title “A View from Eternity” - “Good Intentions.” In the same year, the second volume of the psychological saga, “The Road,” was published, and the next year, the third volume, entitled “Hell.” In 2010, the novel “Hell” became the winner of the first Russian literary award in the field of electronic books “Electronic Letter” in the category “Best Prose Work”.
In 2009, in the ranking of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) for the title “Best Writer of the Year,” Alexandra Marinina took third place after Daria Dontsova (first place) and Boris Akunin (second place). In 2011, according to the results of a study by VTsIOM in the same ranking, she also found herself in third place after Boris Akunin and Daria Dontsova (first place) and Tatyana Ustinova (second place).
In 2011, according to the results of the second Russian literary award in the field of electronic books, “Electronic Letter”, Alexandra Marinina won in the nomination “Highest-grossing author of the year (by sales volume)”, as well as in the nominations “Bestseller of the Year” and “Best Detective” for the novel in two volumes “Personal Motives”.
In 2012, Alexandra Marinina’s two-volume detective novel “Tiger Fight in the Valley” won the third Russian literary award in the field of electronic books “Electronic Letter” in the “Bestseller of the Year” category.
In 2015, the VGTRK channel aired a series based on Alexandra Marinina’s novel of the same name, “A View from Eternity,” and a little later, at one of the meetings with readers, Alexandra Marinina announced a new saga about a generation of lawyers and doctors.

Pseudonym as a trademark.
In December 2003, the writer Marina Anatolyevna Alekseeva registered her literary pseudonym “Alexandra Marinina” in the State Register of Trademarks and Service Marks of the Russian Federation, as well as variations of the name of the main character of her detective novels “Kamenskaya” and “Nastya Kamenskaya” as trademarks, becoming their sole copyright holder.

“I don’t have business acumen, but just in case, I patented the word “Kamenskaya” so that no one would use it.”

As Alexandra Marinina told the press, she did this solely for the purpose of protecting against unfair use of her pseudonym, and not at all with the goal of expanding the scope of its use.

« Perfume “Nastya Kamenskaya” or a clothing store for business women “Kamenskaya” will never appear» .

Alexandra Marinina is a popular Russian author of works in the detective genre. Readers often associate her with her heroine. Perhaps because, in chronological order, Marinina’s books cover an impressive period in the biography of Anastasia Kamenskaya, the main character in the work of this author.

The beginning of creativity

Marinina's books first appeared on bookstore shelves in the nineties. Even a person who is not familiar with the work of this author knows some facts from her biography. Alexandra Marinina is a former police officer. She wrote many books. Most of them were filmed. But in chronological order, Marinina’s books begin with a story that is not known to many.

This work is called “Six-Winged Seraphim”. The book appeared, as often happens, completely by accident. Police officer Maria Alekseeva (that is the actual name of the heroine of this article) in collaboration with her colleague was supposed to write on the topic of drug trafficking. The work of fiction seemed much more interesting to the future writer. And as a result, a story was born, which could not be published separately in the early nineties. "The Six-Winged Seraph" was published in the magazine "Police". Alekseeva signed her story with a pseudonym, which is now known throughout the country.

Anastasia Kamenskaya

This heroine became for Marinina what it was for Agatha Christie. Although the author herself believes that such a comparison is inappropriate. After all, the little Belgian remained in the same age category throughout the entire creative career of the English writer. In chronological order, Marinina's books, starting in 1995, are a biography of Anastasia Kamenskaya. The blonde, who has an analytical mind and speaks several foreign languages, became so popular among readers and then among television viewers that even Elena Yakovleva, who played the main role in the series based on the works of Marinina, is associated by many primarily with the famous film character. But this actress has played many other wonderful roles.

Biography of Kamenskaya

Listing Marinina’s books in chronological order, we should name the author’s second work. “Coincidence of Circumstances” - this is exactly the name given to Alekseeva’s first separate publication. Major Kamenskaya appeared in this book. On the pages of Marinina's early works she is depicted at the age of thirty-two. But it is the book “Coincidence of Circumstances” that opens the “Kamenskaya” series. In recent publications, the heroine is much older. The main character of the author of the most popular detective genre is about fifty.

Anastasia Kamenskaya was born and lives in Moscow. She is married. The prototype of her husband is the writer’s husband. As a child, Kamenskaya graduated from school with a mathematical focus. But she preferred a legal education to the exact sciences, and then the work of an investigator. Marinina's heroine is an extremely educated lady, she speaks five Romance languages, which allows her to engage in literary translation in her free time.

Sometimes, which happens, however, quite rarely, she spends her vacation in a sanatorium near Moscow. During one of these health trips, a murder occurred at a preventive center, which Kamenskaya, of course, immediately began to investigate. “Game on a foreign field” is the name of book number three in the list of “Books by Alexandra Marinina in chronological order.”

"Stolen Dream"

This book tells the story of how a girl once heard an interesting story on the radio. And most importantly - familiar. The story captured the heroine's attention. She was sure that she was directly related to the plot of the radio play. Therefore, I shared my impressions with one of my friends. A few days later the girl died...

It is worth saying that not all of Alexandra Marinina’s books, the list of which is presented in this article, are devoted to the investigation of murders. And not all of them feature Anastasia Kamenskaya as the main character. But “The Stolen Dream” is the fourth work from the list of “Marinina’s Books in Chronological Order.” The “Queen of Detective” series includes other creations of this writer, in which the main character invariably is Anastasia Kamenskaya.

"The Reluctant Killer"

Continuing to outline the biography of the famous heroine, it should be said that she has a half-brother with whom she has a special relationship. His name is Alexey. He makes good money, but is extremely cold and pragmatic. One day Alexey turns to his sister for help. Kamenskaya promises to help, after which events occur that the author narrates in the work “Reluctant Murder.”

It should be said that almost all of Alexandra Marinina’s books, the list of which is quite extensive, have similar plot lines and have common characters. Dasha is Alexei's wife. Subsequently, this girl will appear more than once in the writer’s works. Not only Kamenskaya’s biography, but also events from the lives of other characters are presented in Alexandra Marinina’s books in chronological order.

The list can be continued with a work that talks about immoral and anti-human experiences.

"Death for Death's Sake"

At one of the research institutes, experiments were carried out on the human psyche. The victims of these studies had no idea that they were “guinea pigs.” And only Anastasia Pavlovna noticed that in one of the districts of the city crimes were becoming more frequent on certain days. The police major exposed the attackers. However, the investigation into this case was not without victims.

Continuing to list all of Alexandra Marinina’s books in chronological order, we will not outline the contents of each of them, but we will name the following several works:

• "Sixes die first";
• "Death and a Little Love";
• "Black list";
• "Posthumous image";
• “You have to pay for everything”;
• "Alien Mask";
• “Don’t disturb the executioner”;
• "Stylist";
• "The Illusion of Sin";
• "The Bright Face of Death";
• “The name of the victim is Nobody”;
• "Men's Games";
• "I died yesterday";
• "Requiem";
• "The Phantom of Music";
• "The Seventh Victim";
• "When the Gods Laugh";
• "Unlocked door."

Features of Marinina's prose

If you read all of Alexandra Marinina’s books in chronological order (the list in this article will be presented in full), you will notice features that become more and more obvious with each subsequent work. This author pays a lot of attention to the psychological analysis of the hero. There are often digressions that have a somewhat philosophical overtone. Perhaps this is why among Marinina’s later works there are books that do not belong to the detective genre. But before we begin to describe them, we should complete the list from the “Kamenskaya” series. So, the list of “Marinina’s Books in chronological order”:

• "The Law of Three Negations";
• "Co-authors";
• "Howling Dogs of Loneliness";
• "Life after life";
• "Personal motives";
• "Angels cannot survive on ice";
• "Execution without malice."

"Every man for himself"

In this work, the reader will not meet Anastasia Kamenskaya and other familiar characters. The book talks about a woman who was forced to leave her hometown and come to Moscow. In the capital, she ended up as a nurse in the house of an elderly general. Needless to say, it was this general’s family that was involved in the crime? But the center of this book is not a murder, but the fate of a woman who was left alone in a strange big city as a result of the betrayal of her only loved one.

"He who knows"

This book is the first of those that do not belong to any series and differ significantly from previous works. The novel “He Who Knows” seemed to open a new period in Marinina’s work. This book is about the fate of a woman who survived the death of her little daughter, raised someone else’s, became one of the best documentary directors, and at the same time kept a heavy, burning secret in her soul for many years.

"Feeling of Ice"

Marinina’s later works include works that can hardly be called detective stories. Events in the novel “The Sense of Ice” begin to develop in the seventies. The work covers a significant period in the life of the main characters - about thirty years.

Marinina’s books contain not only a twisted plot. They are also interesting to read because this author knows how to create a picture in which the destinies of different people are intertwined in a bizarre way. The latest books, perhaps, are not devoid of elements of the epic genre.

"All wrong"

This book is a continuation of the work described above. The storyline here is loosely intertwined with the events discussed in the novel “The Sense of Ice.” But on the pages of the book “Everything is Wrong” the reader encounters characters familiar from the previous work.

One day, a young athlete is offered a job, which he is ready to refuse, almost without thinking. The main character of this book must cope with a difficult task - he must make sure that the employer’s daughter gets rid of extra pounds. An ambitious athlete, who has many prizes and awards under his belt, is prevented from abandoning such work only by financial difficulties. But six months later, he realizes that the efforts he has made in recent months are incomparable to any sporting achievements. Besides, this book is not without crime...

"View from Eternity"

It’s impossible to say for sure which of Alexandra Marinina’s books is the best. At the very least, any point of view will be subjective. But the trilogy “View from Eternity” is perhaps the most profound work of this author. As in the two previous cases, the reader experiences a considerable period of time together with the characters. At the beginning of the novel, the main character is in her teens. At the end the last hours of her life are described. During her life she experiences many small sorrows and joys. And one huge grief is the death of his son. She does not share this pain with her family, but experiences it alone.

Reading the book “A View from Eternity,” you feel the fleeting nature of life. A person comes into this world with nothing. And he leaves, despite the storm of feelings, experiences, emotions and suffering, completely alone. Only memory remains.

Marinina Alexandra (Alekseeva Marina Anatolyevna)- born on June 16, 1957 in Lvov, lived in Leningrad until 1971, and since 1971 in Moscow. She studied at an English special school (in Leningrad - N 183, in Moscow - NN 17 and 9), at the Leningrad Music School named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov.
In 1979, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and was assigned to the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. She began her career as a laboratory assistant, in 1980 she was appointed to the position of research assistant, and received the rank of police lieutenant. She studied the personality of a criminal with mental anomalies, as well as a criminal who committed repeated violent crimes. In 1986 she defended her thesis on the topic: “The personality of a person convicted of violent crimes and the prevention of special recidivism.”
Since 1987, she has been involved in crime analysis and forecasting. He has more than 30 scientific works, including the monograph “Crime and Crime Prevention in Moscow”, published by the UN Rome Interregional Institute on Crime and Justice (UNICRI).
In February 1998, she retired with the rank of police lieutenant colonel. In 1991, A. Marinina’s literary activity began.
Since 1992, A. Marinina created a series of detective novels, the main character of which was the detective of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Anastasia Kamenskaya. In addition, she wrote numerous prose works in different genres, the most significant of which (for the author) is the family saga “He Who Knows,” as well as several plays. Since 1998, A. Marinina’s works have been translated and published in more than 25 countries around the world.
In 1995, Marinina was awarded the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs prize for the best work about the work of the Russian police (for the books “Death for Death’s Sake” and “Playing on a Foreign Field”). In 1998, at the Moscow International Book Fair, A. Marinina was recognized as “Writer of the Year” as the author whose books sold the largest number of copies in 1997. In 2006 she was awarded the Writer of the Decade award. In 1998, A. Marinina became a laureate of the Ogonyok magazine award in the “Success of the Year” category.
The magazine “Cult of Personalities” (No. 1, 1998) named Marina Alekseeva among the 25 most influential people in the country, noting that “huge editions of detective stories by Alexandra Marinina (M.A. Alekseeva) are sold out instantly - which actually makes her ruler of millions of minds. And she unobtrusively introduces into them the ideas of democracy, moderate feminism and corruption of power.” Among numerous awards and prizes, A. Marinina was awarded the Olympia national prize of public recognition in 2005, as a woman whose literary work has become a striking event in Russian culture.
Hobbies and passions
Hobbies: A. Marinina collects bells and enjoys flamenco dancing and clay pigeon shooting.
Music: operas by Verdi.
Cinema: melodramas and psychological detective stories.
In his free time: playing solitaire on the computer, putting together puzzles.

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Books: 68

QUEEN OF THE RUSSIAN DETECTIVE Alexandra Marinina (real name - Alekseeva Marina Anatolyevna) was born in 1957 in Lvov. Until 1971 she lived in Leningrad, from 1971 in Moscow. In 1979 she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov and received distribution to the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In 1986 she defended her PhD thesis on the topic: “The personality of a person convicted of violent crimes and the prevention of special recidivism.” He has more than 30 scientific works, including the monograph “Crime and Crime Prevention in Moscow”, published by the United Nations Interregional Institute on Crime and Justice (UNICRI). Since 1994, she worked as deputy head and editor-in-chief of the research, editorial and publishing department of the Moscow Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (before renaming - the Moscow Higher Police School). In 1998, she retired with the rank of police lieutenant colonel. The heroine Anastasia Kamenskaya first appeared in the detective story “Coincidence of Circumstances,” which was published in the magazine “Police” in the fall of 1993. The first book to include