The Virgin's Role

You have to be able to fall in love. And Anya Likhovitskaya clearly doesn’t possess that skill: she fell for a charming stranger—and the result was a mountain of corpses and an ocean of troubles. The stranger turned out to be no simple fellow, and now three owners of the “Olympia” casino suspect Anya of being involved in a robbery of their establishment. So she has no choice but to create a romantic quadrangle and fool the owners of “Olympia,” hoping to avoid their punishment…

Tatyana Polyakova is one of the most popular Russian writers in the detective genre. Over the course of her writing career, more than 85 books have come from her pen, with a total circulation of over 36 million copies. According to readers, Tatyana Polyakova’s novels are “an exciting plot and an unpredictable ending, charming characters and incredible adventures, an easy style and vivid dialogue.”