A Tear in Amber

Anna Danilova's thrillers are captivating detective stories in which the author reveals the deep motives that led the characters to crime through psychological puzzles and complex emotional entanglements. 
Alexandra Ivanovna had no luck. Having fled her native Moldova, she tried to find happiness in the Moscow region, only to become embroiled in a criminal story. She was “conned” out of a large sum of money, and now she has to hustle to make ends meet. She gets a job as a cleaner at a notary office, where she accidentally overhears a conversation about a prominent businessman, Sergey Karavaev, who is ill and planning to rewrite his will, leaving everything not to his only son but to a twenty-year-old girl named Valentina Yudina. At this point, Alexandra realizes that this information has the potential to change her life entirely…