Colonel Khme(l)nova had the misfortune to call the new case ordinary. And what a curse that was! The neat version fell apart, everything got tangled, and it’s unclear who to suspect of the murder… It all started with the fact that two girlfriends couldn’t share a man. Alla invited Irina over, told her she was going to leave with her beloved Ivan to Sakhalin, and even sold her apartment. During the heat of the rivals’ quarrel, Ivan called Alla, and she ran to him. Then Irina was caught on the stairwell over the body of the stabbed Alla—with a bloodied knife in her hand… Galina Romanova is a true connoisseur of human feelings and relationships. In her detective melodramas from the “Woman’s Method” series, both blood, tears, and love intertwine—just like in real life, when just one single step separates us from love to hate, from friendship to love, from birth to death. Tender feelings are tested by real trials, where the reward is nothing less than life itself.