The Fatal Gift

9 hrs. 5 min.

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Ustinova

Narrator Darya Belousova

Description

The riveting novel “A Fatal Gift” by celebrated Russian detective writer Tatyana Ustinova is written in her signature light and instantly recognizable style: a tightly wound intrigue, intelligent humor, convincing everyday details, and memorable characters. As always, the story is full of family secrets and intrigues, and there’s room for an intimate love plot as well. The famous writer Marina Pokrovskaya—actually Manya Polivanova—has fallen into a slump. Alex Shon-Girey, the love of her life, behaves strangely, and work isn’t going well either. To gather her thoughts, Manya goes to the city of Belovodsk and becomes an eyewitness to a crime. Right before her eyes, a local businessman is shot—wealthy, smart, capable, a devoted husband and a kind father—in short, an ideal man. Manya begins investigating, and it turns out that Maxim’s life—this is the name of the murdered man—was in fact far from ideal! And the writer herself isn’t happy that she’s gotten entangled in such a dangerous and ambiguous affair…