Eternal Check

Judge Irina Polyakova is assigned a simple but loud case: the well-known public figure Smulsky killed his admirer by accident. He tried to save the girl, and when that failed, he came with a confession. The judge is inclined to hand down the mildest sentence, because the girl had been threatening Smulsky’s family—sending bandits to his wife and daughter...

But Irina’s loyal assistant, Gortenziya Andreevna, sees a second meaning behind the case, and Irina has grown used to trusting the intuition of an old teacher. Love-and-psychological novels with a vivid detective component take readers back to retro times: in the 1980s, the young judge Irina Polyakova and two lay judges—who are assigned new cases each time—decide people’s fates. Mercy, impartiality, a sharp mind, and above all that notorious female logic that it’s customary for men to mock—allow such cases to be unraveled which can’t be solved by standard methods. The description of everyday life of that time won’t leave anyone indifferent: the heat of passions, honor and dignity that mean something to M. Voronova’s heroes—everything is top quality!