People Behind You. Volume 2

It seems no one is behind this…

Or are we simply not noticing?

You’re looking at not just a detective story, but a tense, psychologically precise narrative about people who conceal their real goals, effortlessly switch roles, and commit actions for which the inevitable reckoning will affect many. It has everything readers value in Marинина: Anastasia Kamen-skaya, a multi-step investigation, convincing characters, and the constant feeling that the most important thing is slipping out of view. This book is for those who care not only about intrigue and the final resolution, but also about the meaning that remains after the last page.

A former theater critic—now a “companion for ladies”—Oleg Shebalin comes to the private detective agency “Vlastа,” where Anastasia Kamenskaya works. He asks to locate a woman with whom he would occasionally appear in the theater. Now she has vanished—and almost nothing is known about her: not a surname, not an address, not a phone number…

At first, the assignment looks strange and almost impossible. And why would a theater “gigolo” be so determined to find his missing client? By drawing on old connections, Kamenskaya quickly realizes that the mysterious theater lover is nothing like who she had claimed to be. She has someone else’s biography and forged documents, and her past reaches back to a long-ago incident that had already cost the lives of several people. But this is only the beginning: after one mystery comes another—and one death is followed by another…