Lies are unpleasant, but sometimes the truth is worse than lies. The detective agency “Tyukh” was approached by Maksim Yurkin—a popular artist, the idol of millions. He wants to find his teenage daughter, who was sent to a special boarding school for “re-education.” It’s impossible to run away from such an institution where even a mouse won’t slip through. But Vera managed it.
The case is complicated by the fact that her younger brother’s life is on the line: Kirill has a rare disease. Only a bone marrow transplant from his sister can save him. There’s not much time, and the girl has disappeared.
Dasha Vasilieva and the detectives from the agency urgently launch an operation to search for the missing girl. But the deeper they get into the case, the clearer it becomes: Vera’s escape isn’t just an attempt to gain freedom—it’s a carefully planned game. And the stakes in it are a human life.
71st book in the cycle “Amateur Private Investigator Dasha Vasilieva.” Darya Dontsova is the most popular and in-demand author in our country, the favorite of millions of readers. In Russia, over 200 million copies of her books have been sold. Her work fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, 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 literary diligence. Women need psychological support and they get it from Dontsova. I, too, once read several of her novels. They’re read by very different people: busy business ladies who need to turn their heads off for a while, and housewives who have a 15–20 minute break between bringing the children and picking them up.”
— Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic