Hoping to spend a pleasant evening in a close family circle, Vikenty and his wife's sister Milana arrive at a country house. To their surprise and alarm, they do not find the hostess in the house, but they see brown spots on the floor that resemble blood...The police are withdrawing from the investigation under the pretext of "no body, no case"!The husband and sister of the missing woman decide to look for her on their own... They encounter a series of mysterious events and begin to suspect each other... the disappearance of the Research Institute... Reissue in a convenient pocket.- A family drama with elements of a detective thriller and mystery.- The mysterious disappearance of a woman, which her husband and sister-in-law are forced to investigate themselves. The only evidence is stains on the floor that look like dried blood. And it seems that everyone knows more about the crime than they are talking about. The reader will have to figure out which of the narrators to believe.- An intriguing, sometimes even scary story, the mystery of which persists until the very end.- Larisa Soboleva is a master adventurous detective. In her own words, she draws all the plots from real life.- New author's series "Detective in crimson tones".