It’s easy to refuse a man; but it’s harder with a friend. When Nastya asked Yevlampiya Romanova to prepare her favorite dessert and come to the exhibition of one of her mother’s works, she showed up without hesitation—with jelly. At the event, Nastya announced her engagement, which made Yevlampiya very happy, because a year ago Nastya had lost her husband Grisha, but managed to go on living and find a new chosen one.
However, a strange woman suddenly appeared, claiming that she had a child by Grisha. Yevlampiya didn’t let her in, but the next day she learned that Nastya’s fiancé had been hit by a car driven by that same uninvited guest.
Yevlampiya firmly decided to find out what was happening with the men in Nastya’s life and why a dried fish—roach—was getting into the locked apartment, while on her car there was a camel.
Darya Dontsova is a famous writer whose success is explained by a subtle sense of literary preferences of millions of readers. The heroes of her detective novels— with interesting names and surnames— investigate tangled crimes, keeping readers’ attention. Her understanding of modern psychology, ease of language, and rich imagination have earned her recognition, numerous literary awards, and the title “Writer of the Year” according to VTsIOM surveys.