Tatiana Ustinova was born in 1968 in Moscow. Prior to becoming a writer she worked as an editor for the Russian State TV Radio Company and ORT TV Channel. She debuted as a writer in 1999 with her crime story A Personal Angel. Since then every book by Tatyana Ustinova turned a bestseller. Today Tatiana Ustinova is one of the best-selling Russian crime fiction authors whose novels invariably feature the female protagonist that unexpectedly finds herself in the midst of criminal activity. Ustinova’s witty-in-language works are a smart mixture of “cozy” and “hard-boiled” detective novels combining brutal crimes, affecting love-stories and elements of situational comedy. She has written 25 novels that have been translated into many European languages and inspired several successful Russian TV series – to the date 13 movies have been made after Tatyana Ustinova’s plots. The general printrun of Tatyana Ustinova’s titles is 25 143 600 copies.
In 2004 the Academy of the Russian Television gave Tatiana the prestigious TEFI Award in the category of The Best Script Writer of a Movie (Series) for the script to the series “Always Say Always”. As a result of the General Ukranian survey 2006 among the Publishers and Distributors of the Books, Tatyana Ustinova was given the prestigious Sherlock Holmes’ Golden Smoking Pipe Book Award for being the most popular Russian Author in Ukraine. In 2007 Tatyana Ustinova took the third place on the rating list of the most read Writers of Russia.
The First Rule of a Queen
Pervoje pravilo korolevy
Eksmo, 2003
384 pp.
Rights sold:
Germany
Serbia
Estonia
The Personal angel
Personalnyi angel
Eksmo, 2003
320 pp.
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Germany
Serbia
Estonia
The Divorce and a Maiden Name
Razvod I devichja familia
Eksmo, 2002
384 pp.
Rights sold:
Germany
Serbia
Estonia
One shadow for two
Odna ten’ na dvoikh
Eksmo, 2002
416 pp.
Rights sold:
Germany
Serbia
Estonia
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