Anna Danilova’s fast-paced novels are thrilling detective stories in which, using psychological puzzles and intricate entanglements of feelings, the author reveals the deep motives that drove the heroes to commit crimes. This time, the famous lawyer Boris Bronnikov is asked to help his neighbor Emma, whose husband—an abusive tyrant—dies under circumstances suspiciously similar to murder. Who is to blame—the young man hiding in Emma’s house from justice and who promised to save his beloved from her tormentor—or is everything much more complicated? Zhenya Bronnikov can’t stay on the sidelines and joins the investigation.