The first case of Tess Fox, the newly minted inspector of the Brighton Criminal Police, threatens to turn into a complete failure, since it is impossible to understand how a man with a slit throat could fall from the balcony of an empty apartment, locked from the inside. Worse, this man is an old acquaintance of Tess's, whom she tried her best to forget. But there is a bigger problem: Sarah, her stepsister, a talented con artist and fraudster, was associated with the deceased.
Sarah's quirky mind and criminal past put her under suspicion, and Tess is at risk, because there is also a skeleton in the police inspector's closet.…
For the first time in Russian!