A Wreath of Iron Dandelions

Ivan Pavlovich Podushkin loves spending time with a good book. But for some reason, every time a private detective settles comfortably with a volume by his favorite author in his hands, a doorbell rings and another client appears in the office. Today the visitor was Yury Mironov, who is sure that he saw his mother in a shopping mall. What’s strange about that? Women love shopping. Only Ekaterina Semyonovna died several months ago. Then Yury’s mother-in-law and father-in-law also went to the afterlife. They died in their sleep—heart attack and stroke. But they hadn’t been sick with anything like that…
Yury suspects their deaths might have been beneficial to Andrey—the friend of Dusia, his wife’s sister. Andrey is a charlatan, a fraudster, who scams people for money, and he could very well have gone after the inheritance. Mironov asks Podushkin to expose the villain. And to answer one question: what was his late mother doing in the store?
Darya Dontsova is the most popular and in-demand author in our country, a favorite of millions of readers. In Russia, more than 200 million copies of her books have been sold. Her writing fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, and confidence in the coming day!
“Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don’t know any other writer who works as much. I respect her as a model of writerly diligence. Women need psychological support—and they get it from Dontsova. I myself read several of her novels. People with very different lives read her. Busy business ladies, so they can switch off their minds for a while, and housewives who have a break of 15–20 minutes between drop-off and pick-up of the kids.” — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic.