Private detective Tatyana Ivanova receives what seems like a simple case: find Alla—the runaway daughter of a university professor. The girl had a fight with her father and left home. As Ivanova delves into the investigation, she realizes that Alla Pervushkina is involved in the murder of her acquaintance Oleg, and for the police she is the number-one suspect… Marina Serova is a phenomenon of the modern domestic detective genre. A graduate of the law faculty of MSU, she worked in the General Prosecutor’s Office. She participated in operational events. Author of a number of plot-driven novellas whose total circulation exceeds twenty million copies.