Swallow's Nest

Yalta, 1927. While colleagues are racing to shoot films for the anniversary of the revolution, director Boris Winter begins work on a large-scale adventure film. However, not everything goes as planned: funds are lacking, a risky stunt leads to injury, during filming on the promenade a drowned man is found in the sea, and then a murder occurs within the film crew…
To get to the bottom of what is happening, young detective Ivan Opalin infiltrates the filmmakers and realizes that not all of them are who they claim to be...

Valeria Verbinina is a master of historical detective fiction, author of more than 50 novels in this genre. In her new cycle "Detective Retro," she brilliantly captures the realities of life in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, against which a virtuously twisted intrigue unfolds. The investigation is led by MUR detective Ivan Opalin.