Evgenia Pankrashina, the wife of a wealthy businessman, was killed with two stab wounds in the stairwell of a Moscow high-rise building. According to her family, the victim had an expensive piece of jewelry with her – a bib necklace. However, he was not found at the crime scene. At first glance, everything is simple – murder for the purpose of robbery. But the more information the operatives – Anton Stashis and Roman Dzyube – manage to gather about the identity of the murdered woman, the more mysterious and strange this case becomes. And then there's the death of a person close to them, which continued a series of unexplained murders..."Marinina not only writes detective novels, but also answers eternal questions. The author treats his readers like a kind and experienced teacher to students who need support, guidance and guidance on the right path. Optimistic and practical in her didactics, Marinina poses the question “how to live” and tries to help the reader find his way to a better life in today's world. Marinina writes a modern novel "education of feelings" with her detectives: the main goal of the author is education through entertainment." — Anatoly Vishevsky, Grenell College, USA"Many of Alexandra Marinina's novels have been adapted into films in Russia, and in Germany they have been reworked into radio plays. Based on the fact that the purpose of these treatments is to capture viewers and listeners in the same way as readers are captured, the film and radio plays are not only additional works of fiction, but also interesting interpretations that penetrated the secret of Alexandra Marinina's success." — Sarah Hagi, University of Cologne, Germany"In the dialogues of fiction and trivial literature, one can find different ways of stylizing "verbality" in order to achieve the impression of spontaneous conversation. Everyday speech in A. Marinina's novels is characterized by an unusually high degree of animation, which is expressed, among other things, in different forms of address of the interlocutors, in various shades of politeness and in the emotionality of the vocabulary used." — Wolfgang Stadler, Leopold Franzen University, Innsbruck, Austria