Flemish board. Perev-Reverte A.

The unfinished chess party in the picture of the Flemish artist and the mysterious inscription found on it under a layer of paint become the key in the investigation of the brutal murders that occur today. Each of the heroes of the novel turns into a chess figure, which is involved in the devilish game that unfolded around. And the silent drama, reflected in the picture, receives a strange continuation after several centuries. Painting and mathematics, logic and history are placed in the novel in the service of an accurate, perfectly worked out plot from the world of collectors and antiques. The action takes the heroes into the past and makes us find that time is not imperious over human passions. And, unlike chess, in reality “nothing is only black or white”: good turns into evil, and a sacrifice to the executioner.