“A Guilty Woman” is the second part of the most “loud” crime novel of the previous year (1994), “The First Visit of Satan.” In this work, the writer shows one of the sore points of our troubled time— the criminalization of public consciousness. Crime as a backdrop even for intimate, tender human relationships is an astonishing phenomenon of the transition to the “market paradise.” The refined, sharply ironic style of the author’s exposition and an intense dramatic plot will undoubtedly bring popularity to “A Guilty Woman” among our readers.
The modern world in Anatoly Afanasyev’s novels is a world of criminal relationships that have become the norm of life—life where the boundaries between vice and virtue, loyalty and betrayal, love and bloody crime are blurred… `