The Secret of the Silver Cross

Young talented actress Alice Vorontsova is found dead on the stage of the theater on the eve of the premiere. The police close the case, attributing it all to suicide caused by stress. But the girl's mother is convinced: her daughter was murdered. Private detective Tatiana Ivanova quickly discovers that Alice's death is a carefully staged performance full of discrepancies. The shadow of a mysterious criminal authority named Serafim, the mysterious death of Alice's real mother, lost inheritance, and documents hidden in a stolen icon — all of these are links in the same chain. Someone very powerful is ready to kill to ensure that old secrets are never uncovered.

Marina Serova is a phenomenon of the modern domestic detective genre. A graduate of the law faculty of Moscow State University, she worked in the Prosecutor General's Office. She participated in operational activities. The author of several thrillers, with a total circulation exceeding twenty million copies.