Personal Motives

A detective story where everything is wrong.
In a Moscow region writer's residence, the body of the grant program manager is found, and the investigator who arrived here seems to be tangled in the personal motives and fictions of the writers... gathered under one roof.
Moreover, the ubiquitous smell of phlox is driving him crazy. Or is it not the smell, but something else that irritates and looms behind all this chaos? Will the murderer be caught? Or is life not governed by the laws of detective literature, but is completely unpredictable? After all, it seems that behind the fictional writers stand very real people, and the classic story of murder turns into an attempt to unravel the literary factory of illusions.
“Everything you wanted to know about the backstage of the literary world — and even more! An ironic novel that will make you laugh and will surely stay with you,” - Vera Bogdanova, writer