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A trifling accident can derail the best-laid plan, but it cannot help find the right solution. More than once Anastasia Kamenskaya, while investigating complicated crimes, became convinced of this. Ordinary household chores, a drawing on the cover of a book, suddenly, in an incomprehensible way, unite disparate facts into a clear picture. What is the connection between the leakage of precious metals from the country and the maniac operating in the Moscow region? What do a police officer and an eccentric clerk killed in his office have in common? Facts are silent until they are struck by the lightning of intuition. For the sake of this outbreak, Nastya will have to double-check every little thing for the hundredth time, forget about sleep, and withstand inhuman tension. But the moment of insight is most precious. Indeed, more expensive...

“Marinina not only writes detective novels, but also answers eternal questions. The author treats his readers as a kind and experienced teacher treats students who need support, hints and direction on the right path. Optimistic and practical in her didactics, Marinina poses the question “how to live” and tries to help the reader find her way to a better life in today’s world. With her detective stories, Marinina writes a modern novel of “education of feelings”: the author’s main goal is education through entertainment.” — Anatoly Vishevsky, Grinell College, USA

“Many of Alexandra Marinina’s novels were filmed in Russia, and in Germany they were reworked into radio plays. Given that the purpose of these adaptations is to captivate viewers and listeners in the same way that readers are captivated, the film and radio play are not only complementary works of fiction, but also interesting interpretations that penetrate the secret of Alexandra Marinina’s success.” — Sarah Hagy, University of Cologne, Germany

“In the dialogues of fiction and trivial literature one can find different ways of stylizing “orality” in order to achieve the impression of spontaneous conversation. Everyday speech in A. Marinina’s novels is distinguished by an unusually high degree of liveliness, which is expressed, among other things, in different forms of address of the interlocutors, in different shades of politeness and in the emotionality of the vocabulary used.” — Wolfgang Stadler, Leopold Franzen University, Innsbruck, Austria