The Vanilla Scent of Death

A young married couple, barely making ends meet, inherits a mini-hotel near Moscow. What a gift of fate, isn’t it? However, the joy of the newly minted businessmen turns into panic. A well-known guest dies from drug poisoning. A witness to his death is also trying to be poisoned. And this is only the beginning of terrible crimes happening across a small country house estate. A string of murders, the theft of rare items, and the mysterious disappearance of the main suspect produce mutually exclusive versions—in which both the official investigation and the private detective Lyusha Shatova get tangled. Besides, that “paradise corner” that becomes a cursed place hides a mortal danger for the very detective...