Bonfires of Illusions

Aleksey is a brilliant director and completely unfit for life. Unscrupulous people use Aleksey shamelessly—even the admirers of the famed director can’t protect him… Viktoria is Aleksey’s ex-wife. She initiated the breakup herself, but still loves him and is ready to do anything to save him from real danger… Lena is Aleksey and Viktoria’s grown daughter. She is practical and focused on material well-being, but that only helps her father’s enemies pull the daughter into their sticky web…
Unraveling the tangle of grievances, mistakes, and misdeeds of these people, Detective Sergey Koltsov uncovers an entire criminal network…
Serious professional skill and the brilliant literary talent of Yevgeniya Mikhailova will enchant any reader. Her novels are unique: they turn the soul inside out and make the heart beat faster more often. She is a master of the social detective story, and the most pressing problems of modern Russian society are reflected in her fast-paced novels.