Tatyana Ivanova takes on a new investigation: an unknown person has splashed three display windows with vivid scarlet paint in the newly opened shopping center, featuring some of the most expensive goods. The losses are substantial, but not catastrophic—insurance will cover everything. So what drove this mysterious vandal to such a demonstrative act? Could there be some coded signal hidden in the scarlet drips on elite watches and outfits?..
To understand the motive, Tatyana will have to bring to the surface the dark pages of the past of an outwardly impeccable shopping center. But the truth she comes to will not bring relief—instead, it will force her to make a new, far more difficult choice…
Marina Serova is a prominent name in modern Russian crime fiction. She graduated from the Law Faculty of MSU, worked in the Office of the Prosecutor General, and took part in operational activities. She is the author of numerous fast-paced novellas, whose total circulation has exceeded twenty million copies.