The Smile of the Chimera

Las Vegas is not just roulette, it's a way of life. Katya Petrovskaia, an employee of the Press Center of the Interior Ministry, and Major Nikita Kolosov from the "murder department" realized this while investigating three murders at the casino "Red Mac." Fatal passions and fatal women, big money and desperate risks, rises and crashes - all this is concentrated to the limit here, everything on the verge of explosion. What lies behind these crimes - the intrigues of competitors, personal revenge or jealousy, or perhaps, even worse - obsessive mania? There are many versions, facts, and clues, but the solution to the criminal riddle remains shrouded in fog. And even when Nikita and Katya get close to it, they refuse to believe that this is possible... The novels of hereditary investigator Tatiana 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, frightening... Tatiana Stepanova manages to reproduce all this brilliantly. Accidental meetings, everyday matters, insignificant details are depicted in her detective stories in some special, dramatic light, as if an innocuous spring meadow before a rapidly approaching storm.