The Key to the Mirage

A stranger's house, a stranger's apartment… Never before had Press Center UVD employee Katya Petrovska felt so lonely and so scared. But the operational situation requires that there be a person in the huge house where dark and, at first glance, meaningless murders are taking place. A multitude of facts has been gathered, but a convincing version does not emerge. The latest murder, which occurred almost in front of Katya's eyes, did not add clarity to this dark case. And yet Katya feels that the solution lies within the powerful walls of the house, in its dark windows, gloomy staircases, and in one grim day of a distant past… The novels of hereditary investigator Tatyana Stepanova allow the reader to enter a literary "room of fear." Mysterious murders, an almost tangible atmosphere of crime, the agonizing and anxious anticipation of something unknown and frightening... All this Tatyana Stepanova manages to reproduce brilliantly. Random encounters, everyday matters, insignificant details are depicted in her detective stories in some special, dramatic light, as if a harmless spring meadow before an approaching storm.