The Game and Its Edges

For three months, the private detective Tatyana Ivanova had been sitting idle: there were no orders, and the work had stalled. At last, she decides to get out of the house and, at a coffee shop by chance, meets businessman Alexey Morozov. He offers her a job, and what seems like an ordinary meeting turns out to be the starting point for a chain of mysterious deaths. While sifting through evidence of financial fraud, Ivanova—on her own initiative as well—takes on the investigation of murders that, in a strange way, trail after the main case.

The detective must understand what is really hidden behind the well-to-do façade of the new sports complex “Fakel,” and how thin the line is between friendship and betrayal, love and betrayal.

Marina Serova is a notable name in modern Russian crime fiction. She graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University, worked in the Office of the Prosecutor General, and took part in operational activities. The author of fast-paced, high-stakes stories, whose total print run has exceeded twenty million copies.