The Testament of the Red Saint-Germain

An old aircraft designer dies at the hands of villains who broke into his house at night, and his granddaughter Kira manages to survive. The grandfather was the only close relative the girl had, and she is determined to find and punish those who killed him. After discovering the first clue in her grandfather’s secret archive, she tries to unravel the case herself. The thread stretches far into the past and leads to a mysterious person—Richard Berntoni, known as the “Red Saint-Germain.” Now, many years later, someone kills his best students—and Kira’s life, as she persistently uncovers old secrets, is also put in danger…

In every novel by Ekaterina, world secrets from the past unexpectedly reveal themselves in the present. The book’s heroes, for example, investigate the crash of a liner like the sinking of the “Titanic”; receive strange letters with excerpts from Dyatlov’s diary while stationed at a ski base in the mountains; find a killer’s diary connected to Kennedy—or learn interesting facts about their ancestors, such as that they were acquainted with the poet Nikolay Gumilyov. And all these past secrets are tightly woven into the lives of the heroes and, one way or another, influence their fate.