Valkyrie in Black

In a small town in the Moscow region, truly Shakespearean passions boil, with more than half a century separating horrific events. The memory of Lyubov Zykova is still fresh, who in the fifties was responsible for the mass poisoning of... children at a pioneer camp. Now, another poisoning has occurred here, involving three heirs to a huge fortune. The eldest, the beautiful Gertrude, died at a banquet held in honor of her grandmother's anniversary. Ophelia and Viola, as well as the celebrant Adele Arkhipova, ended up in the hospital. Katya Petrovskaya, a crime reporter for the press center of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Moscow region, is trying to find an invisible connection between the crimes of the past and present and figure out who decided to continue the work of the 'child poisoner', if the 'Lyubka the witch' herself was literally torn to pieces by the crowd back in the distant fifties, and her body was burned in an abandoned workshop of an old factory? The novels of the hereditary investigator Tatiana Stepanova allow readers to experience a literary 'room of fear'. Mysterious murders, an almost tangible atmosphere of crime, a painful and anxious anticipation of something unknown and frightening... All of this Tatiana Stepanova manages to reproduce brilliantly. Chance encounters, everyday matters, insignificant details are depicted in her detective stories in a special, dramatic light, like a harmless spring meadow before an imminent storm.