Private detective Tatyana Ivanova is bored out of her mind—until a respectable man with an unusual assignment appears in her apartment. Someone has stolen a unique artifact from him—fortune-telling bones from the Ming dynasty—and not just stolen, but… swapped. For collector Dorokhov, these bones are not merely an expensive museum rarity; they bring luck to their owner. Everyone becomes a figure in a game whose rules are written not on paper, but on the facets of fate. Yet which player is betting on someone else’s life?
Marina Serova is a phenomenon of modern Russian detective fiction. A graduate of the law faculty of MSU, she worked in the Office of the Prosecutor General. She took part in operational activities. Author of several fast-paced thrillers, with a total print run exceeding twenty million copies.