Cherry in Ice

In the art gallery, a case of emergency: one painting study by Quingji disappeared from the stockrooms! Before raising a fuss, a museum employee asked her old acquaintance, Colonel Viktor Doroshin, to try to deal with the problem privately. At first, the matter didn’t seem difficult to him. Besides, Viktor was expecting a pleasant bonus—getting acquainted with the charming art historian Ksenia.

The girl tried to help and supplied Viktor with the necessary information for the investigation about gallery coworkers and internal matters. In this temple of culture, relationships were by no means high-minded! And the simplicity of the task turned out to be deceptive—only to find out that not only Quingji was missing from the stockrooms. Then one of the gallery employees was found murdered! And suddenly Ksyusha’s relationship with Viktor took an unexpected turn…