Crystal Trap

The long-awaited trip with family to the ski resort turns into a real nightmare for Olga Krasinskaya. Lost in the twilight of the mountains, she accidentally stumbles into a cave, where she finds a horrifying collection — seven corpses encased... in ice. Not knowing what to do, Olga runs out of the cave. But her story is perceived as the ramblings of a madwoman. A few days later, Olga's father is found dead in their hotel room. And she is the main suspect. Nobody believes in her innocence, not even her close ones. She doesn’t believe in it herself. What is it — the actions of a madwoman or a well-planned criminal plot — this is what the head of security at the resort, Pal Palych Zvyagintsev, will have to figure out...

• Victoria Platova is the only Russian author working in the genre of mystical realism. To know oneself, it is not necessary to study psychology textbooks. The brilliant analysis of psychopathology in Platova's novels provides a key to all hidden phobias, desires, and motives of anyone's actions.
• The works of Victoria Platova have gained popularity not only among Russian-speaking readers: her books have been translated into many languages, and the author's name is familiar to detective genre lovers in European countries and even across the ocean. Her first book, as well as the novels «Devil's Bath,» «The Geometry of Murder,» «Inspector and the Butterfly,» and «Stalingrad, Metro Station,» are particularly popular even today.
• Victoria Platova has a rare talent to combine exciting adventures and bloody intrigues with a polished, magnificent style.
• More than 10 of the author's works have been adapted for film — surely, such success among filmmakers is not accidental, as Victoria Platova is a certified screenwriter and a graduate of VGIK. Therefore, her elegant and fast-paced books turn into equally captivating series. By the way, the writer herself participates in creating some of them.