Anastasia Kamenskaya is back in business! For almost thirty years, the beloved character of millions of readers has been serving a noble cause — the search for truth!For the first time, the renowned investigator examines an old criminal case on a real crime. The convicted person is still serving his sentence in a correctional institution. No one has ever described the inner kitchen of investigative actions in such detail and fascinatingly. Together with the heroes of the detective, you will be able to dive deep into the investigation and solve a crime that is more than twenty years old! Be prepared for the truth about that terrible day of crime that is opening before your eyes. Since childhood, we have been accustomed to believe that there is only one truth. She's like a white pebble in a pile of black rubble. It is enough to sort through everything, and you will definitely find it — the only, indisputable, unconditional truth.… But is it true?Once upon a time, a brutal triple murder of parents and a child was committed in a Moscow communal apartment. The suspect confessed himself. He was detained, and an investigation and trial took place. Twenty years later, an old criminal case falls into the hands of a legendary retired operative, Anastasia Kamenskaya, and a young journalist, Pyotr Kravchenko. The guy believes that the convict was framed, and seeks to expose the investigators. It turns out that everyone in this story is driven by their own truth, which in turn generates thousands of lies..."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 detective stories: the author's main goal is education through entertainment." — Anatoly Vishevsky, Grenell College, USA"Many of Alexandra Marinina's novels have been adapted into films in Russia and reworked into radio plays in Germany. Based on the fact that the purpose of these treatments is to capture viewers and listeners in the same way that readers are captured, the film and the radio play are not only additional works of fiction, but also interesting interpretations that have penetrated into 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 the 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.