"If when you were a child the school star didn’t invite you to her birthday because of your ugly dress, then when you’re grown up, don’t be friends with this woman. Especially if you’re buying yourself your tenth diamond necklace!" But despite childhood resentments, Dasha couldn’t refuse her former classmate, Vasilisa Gerasimova, when that one asked for help. Vasilisa found in her apartment a necklace of fabulous value and asks to find out who planted it.
Strangely enough, on the very same day another old friend of Vasilisa’s, Anyuta, came to Degtyarev’s agency. It turns out that her husband was poisoned…
Dasha and the colonel begin a double investigation and unexpectedly uncover the noble Safonovs, who were killed in the 1930s. They were shot and robbed by NKVD employees.
It seems the necklace planted on Vasilisa is exactly one of those stolen treasures. And the investigators also understand that both former classmates are lying to them. But why? That’s what they will have to figure out by establishing all the people involved in that old case and in the two current ones.
Darya Dontsova is the most popular and in-demand author in our country, the 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 tomorrow!
“Dontsova is an incredible workhorse! I don’t know any other writer who works as much. I respect her as an example of writer’s diligence. Women need psychological support and get it from Dontsova. I myself once read several of Dontsova’s novels. People from very different walks of life read her. And very busy business ladies, to switch off their brains for a while, and housewives who have a break of 15–20 minutes between take-drop-off of the children.” — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic.