She is often called “the queen of the domestic detective story” and “the Russian Agatha Christie.”
Marinina’s most famous series features investigations by Anastasia Kamenskaya—a detective in the Homicide Unit of the MUR. Kamenskaya is the heroine of the writer’s thirty novels and the main character of a popular TV series with six seasons.
…Milena Pogodina is killed—Pavel Sedov’s mistress, an employee of the Department for Combating Narcotics. The girl is found strangled in the apartment of a certain Oleg Kanunnikov, whom Sedov had never even heard of before.
As she delves into this complex and baffling case, Nastya Kamenskaya will have to face another figure from Marinina’s books—the local police officer Igor Doroshin—and also track down the mysterious Fund and learn about the existence of an enigmatic super-secret Program…