The Chariot of Time

Could Katya Petrovska, an employee of the Press Service of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region, imagine the horrific events ahead connected to such a simple, seemingly, murder of a chauffeur from a wealthy house on... a dark alley by the railway station? But in the Coastal Police Department, Major Lily Beloruchka did not consider this case simple; something was unsettling her. Two murders, which had occurred not so long ago in Moscow. It seemed there was no connection, except for the fact that all three victims were shot with a "TT" pistol, and no casings were found at the crime scene. And when it became clear that the murdered driver worked for Zhenya Kochergina, whom Katya had been friends with in childhood, Captain Petrovska decided to help Lily with the investigation. And now Katya inadvertently runs into her childhood friend, who over a cup of tea invites her for the weekend to a country mansion, where the whole family is supposed to gather. But why are all family members shamelessly lying about that last day when their chauffeur was shot?.. The novels of hereditary investigator Tatyana Stepanova allow the reader to experience a literary "room of fear." Mysterious murders, an almost tangible atmosphere of crime, the painful and anxious anticipation of something unknown and frightening... All of this Tatyana Stepanova manages to reproduce brilliantly. Chance encounters, daily activities, insignificant details are depicted in her detective stories in a special, dramatic light, as if an innocent spring meadow before an impending storm.