Black & Red

For the sake of love... What would you do for love? Katya Petrovskaya, an employee of the Press Center of the Internal Affairs Directorate, remembered the blood-soaked staircase, the bag with its horrific contents in the hands of the expert, the overgrown nettle ditch, the branches of the apple trees bending to the ground with wormy fruits, the dark figure pressing its entire weight on the rope thrown over the branch. A face distorted by frenzy... So what would you do for love?.. While participating in the investigation of the murder of two young women, Katya had to look into the black abyss of the human soul. To touch the most forbidden, the darkest... And to realize that reality sometimes exceeds the most terrifying dreams...

The novels of hereditary investigator Tatyana Stepanova allow the reader to visit the literary "room of fear." Mysterious murders, an almost tangible atmosphere of crime, the agonizing and anxious anticipation of something unknown, frightening... All of this Tatyana Stepanova manages to reproduce brilliantly. Casual encounters, everyday matters, insignificant details are presented in her detective stories in some special, dramatic light, as if an innocent spring meadow is standing before an impending storm.