The famous writer Gerald Candless dies of a heart attack. His loving daughter begins to write a book of memoirs and soon discovers that her beloved father was not who he claimed to be. He wasn’t even Gerald Candless. But who was he? And what terrible dark secret made him lie all these years? Only a black moth can point the way to the truth for the one who dares to follow this path to the end. A gripping detective story with elements of a psychological thriller, unexpected plot twists that keep you on edge from the first to the last page—Barbara Vine’s novel “The Black Moth” (literary pseudonym Ruth Rendell) is published in Russian for the first time.