Room with a Riddle

A chain of strange events stirs up the outskirts of the city. Kolya Pozharsky hears someone else’s footsteps in the room of lonely neighbor Tatyana Brusnikina, rushes to catch the thief—only for the thief to slip away. And some time later, a corpse falls from a passing train onto the embankment—later it turns out to be a fire inspector who had also come to Brusnikina. Soon, the same Tatyana discovers she has a twelve-year-old daughter. She was believed to have died during the war… Police captain Nikolai Sorokin doesn’t believe in coincidences. Together with Kolya and his friends, the investigators decide to take a closer look at the lonely woman and her mysterious apartment…

The atmosphere of coming-of-age of the postwar generation—close to many readers, when the spirit of youth and freedom goes to your head. When it’s one step from “everything is possible” to “stop, I’ll shoot.”

Criminal novels about a time that is still carefully kept in many families’ memories. Characters reminiscent of the cult images from the film «Goodbye, you hoodlums of Zamoskvorechye». «In Valery Sharapov’s novels, the passage of time is so palpable that it feels as if, just a little more, and you’ll end up among the heroes of these books—unflappable detectives, cunning criminals, frightened citizens. And desperate investigators will take you for one of their own and immediately get you involved in yet another dangerous operation…» — Sergei ZVEREV, author of action novels.