One of the most unusual cases of Anastasia Kamenskaya. There has not been such a strange case in Anastasia Kamenskaya's practice for a long time. The unknown writer Andrey Kislov was very lucky. According to his only novel, published at his own expense, they want to make a TV series and offer a substantial fee. Of course, he happily agrees. And then suddenly he announces that he will not sign the contract on any terms. A lot of money is at stake, and Nastya Kamenskaya, an employee of a private detective agency, is involved in finding out the reasons for such a mysterious refusal. But soon she becomes the main suspect in a murder case. Of course, but who else! After all, it was she, Nastya, who filthily harassed the victim, threatened him. . . He told about it himself before his death, and there are other witnesses....------------------------------" 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.