The new action-packed novel of the famous star of the Russian detective Tatiana Ustinova "Fatal Gift" is written in a proprietary light and well-recognized manner: twisted intrigue, intelligent humor, authentic everyday details and memorable characters. As always, the novel is full of family secrets and intrigues, and there is a place for a heartfelt love story in it.The famous writer Marina Pokrovskaya — in the world of Manya Polivanova — is completely depressed. Alex Shan-Giray, the love of her life, behaves strangely, and the work is not going well. To collect his thoughts a little, Manya leaves for the city of Belovodsk and becomes a witness to the crime. A local businessman, a wealthy, smart, grasping, faithful husband and kind father, in a word, an ideal man, was shot right in front of her eyes.Manya begins an investigation, and it turns out that Maxim's life — that's the name of the murdered man — was actually not so perfect at all!.. The writer himself is not happy that he got involved in such a dangerous and ambiguous enterprise…