The Ladybug's Thigh-High Boots

7 hrs. 2 min.

Language Russian

Author Darya Dontsova

Narrator Elena Delver

Description

“If a person has reached the stage of training mice that chat with him kindly all day long, then it’s pointless to be offended that at night he doesn’t want to read the works of the great philosopher Immanuel Kant.” With this very line, Vladimir Bykov began explaining to Tatyana Sergeeva what disaster had driven him into detective fiction.

His sister, Marselyeza Bykova, was considered a model of health and neatness—until, quite suddenly, her life was cut short by a heart attack. But was her death truly natural? Vladimir swears he saw his sister’s ghost, who asked that the poisoning be avenged. Private detective Tatyana Sergeeva doesn’t believe in mysticism, but the evidence is far too eloquent: the medical report turns out to be a crude fake, and the tests of the “deceased” belong to an unknown man. To unravel a chain of oddities in which every new detail contradicts the one before, Tatyana and her reliable friend Dimon Korobkov will have to accept the impossible: either Marselyeza has a double, or she somehow learned to… split in two!

Darya Dontsova is one of the most widely read and in-demand authors in the country, beloved by millions. In Russia, more than 200 million copies of her books have been sold.

Her novels give readers light, cheer, optimism, and confidence in tomorrow!

“Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don’t know another writer who works as much. I respect her as an example of writers’ diligence. Women need psychological support, and they get it from Dontsova. I myself once read a few of her novels. Her books are read by very different people: and very busy business ladies, to ‘switch off their brains’ for a while, and housewives who have a pause of 15–20 minutes between ‘drop off/pick up the children.’” — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic