Right After the Creation of the World

A pastoral picture of life in the village of Ostrov, Tverskaya Governorate, is disrupted by a crime: an old gamekeeper is killed. Aleksey Pletnev, a successful businessman who ended up in the village by his own sudden whim, starts investigating.

After all, the village keepers of order have no time for murder, and Pletnev must get to the truth—for his own sake and for the sake of the charming woman who believes in him. The intrigue of Tatyana Ustinova’s detective novel “Right After the Creation of the World” keeps you tense until the very last page. And the twist ending will be all the more unexpected…