Mama Barmaley

If life has cornered you, make colorful paper lanterns, decorate that very corner with them, and live happily. Yevlampiya Romanova is not afraid of problems, but sometimes they pile up so much that even the Lamp gets lost. Irina Golkina came to Max Wolf's office and stated that her daughter was missing. The client referred to Alisa as a baby, a little one, a child. But it turned out that the "little one" is... twenty-four years old and works as a teacher in a college. The mother literally led her daughter around by the hand everywhere. So maybe Alisa ran away from her mother's annoying guardianship? The detectives started the search and found out that the day before her disappearance, the girl was seen with a student from their college, Nikita Rakitin: the young people were going down to the basement of the educational building. Nikita is an artist, a well-known illustrator of children's books in England, who recently returned to Russia. However, his father is serving a sentence in prison for murder. Wolf's team began to investigate the background of the elder Rakitin, and then skeletons started pouring out of all the closets…