The international bestseller continuation of the series about the legendary female inspector Kim Stone In the world has sold more than 5,000,000 books about Kim Stone, a tough and strong-willed heroine with a very difficult past, the right to publish the series has been sold in 28 countries, you KNOW the RULES OF THE GAME. YOU NEED TO SURVIVE. BUT IT'S HARDLY... EVENING. A woman in her sixties is sitting on a children's swing in Hayden Hill Park. It is motionless and does not sway. But if you look closely, you can see that her body is bolted to the swing with barbed wire. The woman is dead. And the letter X is carved on her neck... Detective Inspector Kim Stone arrives at the scene of a terrible crime. She finds out that the victim was once a professor of child psychology.Then they find two more bodies with the same marks on their necks. All the murders are somehow connected with famous children's games, and Kim realizes that he is hunting for a sophisticated serial killer. In the end, she discovers that the murdered once participated in the annual tournaments for gifted children…Angela Marsons is one of the most successful authors in the detective genre. More than 5,000,000 copies of her books have been sold in the world, and about 100,000 copies of her books have been sold in Russia. The author has a huge army of devoted fans. They admire the sharp mind and unbending will of the main character, the authenticity of the characters' characters, intense plots and incredible emotions that reading Angela's novels gives.------------------------------–"For me, Marsons is the queen of the genre. She knows how to truly humanize detective stories..." - Postcard Reviews "It's just wow! A police detective at his best. Complex, intriguing and absorbing the reader without a trace..." – Rachel's Random Reads