The Mad Fan of Baudelaire

9 hrs. 15 min.

Language Russian

Author Maria Spasskaya

Narrator Tatyana Nenarokomova

Description

Kira came to in some strange room and could barely remember what happened the day before: she’d quarreled with her cheating husband, in a rage stormed into her apartment building—and then… a blank. Reality turned out to be horrifying: she is in a private prison, and on the screen of a TV in the room the same scene is being broadcast over and over—Kira, killing her husband! Someone exploited the situation and staged a brilliant, talented simulation—but why did they need it?

Very soon, Kira found out: an unknown kidnapper is willing to let her go, but with one condition. While receiving instructions, she must collect steel flowers from the crime scenes. Then she will stay alive, trading her life for a bracelet made out of them…

Kira doesn’t yet know: a bracelet of five steel poppies tied together with Medusa’s gorgon hair once was given by the “cursed poet” Charles Baudelaire to his muse, Jeanne Duval. They were together for the rest of their lives, but it didn’t bring happiness to either of them…