Landscape with a Monster

11 hrs. 8 min.

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Stepanova

Narrator Natalya Frolova

Description

In 1863, in Rome, at the Villa Hecata, a monstrous murder took place: before a mother’s eyes—beside herself with fear—a forest creature covered in fur tore apart her little son… Thirty years later, the artist Julius von Klever, shaken by the story, created a series of paintings called “Landscape with a Monster.” The pictures seemed to act on viewers like an apparition— as if they were bringing to light the darkness hidden inside a person and awakening a secret evil…

In our day, criminal reporter Ekaterina Petrovskaia from the Press Centre of the Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry of the Moscow Region faces the task of unraveling a chain of crimes no less terrifying and inexplicable that occurred within the family of a show-business star, Felix Sanin. Katya tries to understand whether Julius von Klever’s works are connected to modern murders that have shaken the elite Moscow Region village of Top’, where Russia’s bohemia lives…

Authenticity, psychological depth, and a tense pace are the three pillars on which Police Lieutenant Colonel Tatyana Stepanova builds her detective novels. The culprit is clever and slippery; guesses collapse one after another, and emotions run at full intensity. And the ending, as always, turns out to be unexpected. Tatyana Stepanova’s novels simultaneously frighten and captivate: they hold you with intrigue and cast a spell with their atmosphere. Here, an original plot, exclusive details, and subtle psychological insight are naturally intertwined with hints of mysticism and thriller elements.

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