The Devil's Pit

Summer vacation is a time for wonder. 13-year-old Nikita, arriving in his hometown to visit his grandfather, the museum director, could never have imagined what awaited him. That the sapphire necklace — a scattering of smoky blue beads, fragments of... the sky — would connect our time with events from a century ago. And the sapphires would be the cause of strange and dangerous puzzles that he would have to solve together with Milka, his twin sister. The usual quarrels between brother and sister would give way to friendship — all thanks to an amazing guest from the past.Irina Bogatyryova's novel "The Devil's Pit" is not just an exciting detective story for teenagers with chases, thefts, bandits, and unexplained phenomena. It is a delicate conversation about how our history changes us, who we were and who we can still become.