The Devil on the Train

There are many good people in the world. Very, very many. Hundreds of thousands of times more than villains, maniacs, and killers. But it’s precisely good people who most often become victims. Victims of deception. Victims of tragic mistakes. Victims of circumstances. Victims of villains, maniacs, and killers.

The heroines of the stories in this collection walk along the edge of a razor, and at any moment each of them can become a victim. Some will manage to escape, others won’t—just like in real life. According to the author, some of them have real-life prototypes, and even most names are left unchanged.

Irina Shishkovskaya writes amazing stories in which detective, thriller, and mysticism intertwine. Not in the classic sense—you won’t find physiological horrors here, but psychological ones there will be more than enough. The collection includes both already well-known stories and new works by the author.