The Fatal Gift

9 hrs. 5 min.

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Ustinova

Narrator Darya Belousova

Description

An edge-of-your-seat novel by the celebrated Russian detective star Tatyana Ustinova, “Fatal Gift,” is written in her trademark easy, instantly recognizable style: a tangled intrigue, intelligent humor, credible everyday details, and memorable characters. As always, the novel is full of family secrets and intrigues, and there’s also room for a touching love story. The famous writer Marina Pokrovskaya—known in life as Manyа Polivanova—has completely lost her spirit. Alex Shan-Girey, the love of her life, behaves oddly, and work isn’t going well either. To gather her thoughts, Manya leaves for the town of Belovodsk and becomes an eyewitness to a crime. Right in front of her eyes, a local businessman is shot—well-off, smart, capable, faithful husband and kind father—one word, the ideal man. Manya starts investigating and discovers that Maxim’s life—this is the name of the murdered man—was actually nothing like ideal!.. The writer herself isn’t glad she got involved in such a dangerous and ambiguous enterprise…