Behind the Light Shadow of Summer

Tikhon cannot decide whom to stay with: his wife or his mistress. The beautiful Nastya is waiting for him to leave the boring Lika, but Tikhon is in no rush to make a decision. Suddenly, his wife dies, and he belatedly realizes that he only loved her. By a strange coincidence, Lika experienced the same fate as her mother: she died at thirty years old in an accident. Tikhon suspects that these two stories are connected. He tries to make sense of them, risking becoming a new victim of a criminal who is somewhere nearby, but remains unseen…

Tatyana Ustinova recommends: “What I like about Evgenia Gorskaya's books is that her characters are not only ordinary but also very real people! They live an entirely ordinary life and seem to receive a task from the author—to unravel a dark, convoluted story and find the right answer. And the reward for their efforts is love, a new understanding of life, and confidence in their own abilities. This is a worthy reward, I must say!..”