Personal Motives. Volume 1

The past is inexorably looking into the future. To understand the present day, one must turn back. And the crime that private detective Anastasia Kamenskaya is investigating clearly has roots in the past. Someone has killed the terminally ill, helpless... surgeon Evteev, who had long since left medical practice. This means that there was some dangerous secret in this doctor's past, and revenge caught up with him on the threshold of death. Revenge? However, often behind the mask of revenge hides a basic desire to correct something, to improve one's life. And the subjects of this case are consumed by numerous passionate desires: the thirst for power, wealth, satisfaction of the most fanciful ambitions… In short, that very, so familiar to Naste, fertile ground for committing risky and reckless acts. But somewhere in the past lies that fateful event that caused this avalanche of murders, blackmail, and betrayals. It is necessary to quickly calculate it and stop all this horror…