Fleur d'Orange - The Scent of Mourning

Why does primal horror engulf people in this vast field where rye sways peacefully? Why was the dismembered body of a businessman found here, and a year later, newlyweds were attacked and the happy husband was brutally killed? What compels a trendy painter, a local police officer, and a former mercenary to come here? The mystery of this field, which has so many grim rumors surrounding it, torments all the local residents. And for press center employee Katya Petrovskaya and the chief of the 'murder' department Nikita Kolosov, duty brings them here. They must figure out where legends end and facts, though terrifying, begin... 

The novels of hereditary investigator Tatyana Stepanova allow the reader to enter a literary 'room of fear.' Mysterious murders, an almost tangible atmosphere of crime, the painful and anxious anticipation of something unknown and frightening... All this Tatyana Stepanova manages to reproduce brilliantly. Casual encounters, everyday matters, insignificant details are depicted in her detective stories in some special, dramatic light, as if an innocuous spring meadow stands before a swiftly approaching storm.