Pineapple on the Christmas Tree

If you’re going to die, then with a TV on! Colonel Degtyarev bravely endured throat pain and a temperature of 36.8, lying in bed and clicking through the remote. But he didn’t get to properly be sick. His agency office—“Tyukh”—was visited by a wealthy businessman, Philip Marin. He said his wife Flora drowned a month and a half ago. Philip was frantic with grief, and recently at a restaurant he saw his half-sister Anna with Flora’s favorite bag. Yet that bag, made to order, exists in a single copy… How could it end up with Anna?

Philip asks the investigators to talk to his sister and find out where she got the thing. Especially since all the other valuables of the deceased are still in place… What if this is connected to Flora’s death?

Dasha Vasilyeva and Alexander Degtyarev take on the case and find out that none of the participants in the drama are who they claim to be. And more than that—they aren’t even who they think they are.

How can you not go mad?!

Daria Dontsova is the most popular and in-demand author in our country, a favorite of millions of readers. In Russia, more than 200 million copies of her books have been sold. Her work fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, and confidence in the day to come!

“Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don’t know any other writer who works as much. I respect her as an example of writerly diligence. Women need psychological support and receive it from Dontsova. I read some of her novels myself. People from very different walks read her. And very busy business ladies, to switch their brains off for a while, and housewives who have a 15–20 minute break between ‘drop off-pick up the kids’.” — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic