A Paid Diagnosis

Tatyana Ustinova and Pavel Astakhov’s new novel “Paid Diagnosis” from the “Court Cases” series is written on a pressing topic: a pandemic. It has brought the whole world together, but each person is experiencing it in their own way… Judge Elena Kuznetsova spent the whole day in hearings and was surprised to find many missed calls from her sister Natka. What happened to this restless woman again—she seems to pull trouble to herself like a magnet! When Elena finally managed to get in touch with her sister, her hair stood on end: Natka is in a COVID hospital! Natka insists she isn’t sick at all, and that her ailment is just a common poisoning. She asks Elena to take her home, but that isn’t so easy. The connection cuts off, and when Elena tries again to find her sister, she hears terrifying news…