Смерть как искусство (комплект из 2 книг)

"Life is a theater, and the people in it are actors." The well-known Shakespearean saying is the best fit for the new novel by the queen of the modern detective Alexandra Marinina. After all, the Theater is not only high art, it is like a living organism that does not tolerate lies, betrayal and sometimes takes very cruel revenge.
In the New Moscow Theater, a mysterious and incomprehensible crime is committed - an attempt on the life of director and artistic director L. A. Bogomolova. Now a private detective, Anastasia Kamenskaya, and a young operative from Petrovka, Anton Stashis, begin an investigation that leads them to surprising and unexpected results. There are many suspects, they all lie, and everyone has their own reasons for this lie: parental love, and blind passion, and vile blackmail, and a thirst for success that comes at too high a price, and fear of exposure. It would seem that everything revolves around the Theatre, but one small, seemingly insignificant event, rooted in the past and becoming fatal as a result, gives rise to a new evil. And today it's time to restore justice...