The Mystery of Floor Number 12

Su Xiaotong, together with her husband and son, moves to Lishi in hopes of starting over. At the invitation of the neighbor from apartment 1203, she joins the “Big Family”—a close circle of residents of Yuehaiwan who have dinner together every evening and give the impression of remarkably friendly and caring people. But the apparent well-being starts to crack when Xiaotong and her loved ones suddenly find themselves on the list of heirs of the neighbor living one floor above.

Two hundred fifty million yuan will go to the members of the “Big Family” under one condition: none of them is allowed to leave the residential complex for twenty years. And there’s another detail everyone quickly starts to think about— the fewer heirs who remain, the larger each person’s share. Greed turns life in Yuehaiwan into a cruel game in which, for profit, they are willing to go so far as to commit murder, and the police officer Tan Yong finds himself at the very center of a deadly intrigue. The further the investigation progresses, the more obvious it becomes to him: what’s happening is connected to the horrifying discovery he made two years earlier in apartment 1203…

The novel is being adapted by the creators of the popular series “Under the Skin.”

First time in Russian!