Goodbye, Byzantium! Stepanova T.

Rock is pursuing a large family of the Abakanovs - of several brothers and sisters, three have already been killed. Killed cruelly and unexpectedly. And it seems that this will not end. Why is such a respectable and seemingly prosperous family? All of them are the descendants of the ominous-legendary General Abakanov, the “Stalinist satrap”, who sent hundreds and hundreds of people to the Gulag. Is this a belated revenge to the general? The head of the murder department, Nikita Kolosov, is convinced of this. And Katya Petrovskaya, an employee of the press center, is tormented by unclear doubts. And the reason seems to be trifling - an ancient Byzantine coin, discovered on the site of one of the crimes. Katya all the time it seems that in her dull golden light the truth suddenly shines...

the novels of the hereditary investigator Tatyana Stepanova allow the reader to visit the literary “Room of fear”. The mysterious murders, the almost tangible atmosphere of the crime, the languid and disturbing expectation of something unknown, frightening... All this Tatyana Stepanova manages to reproduce simply brilliantly. Random meetings, everyday affairs, minor details are portrayed in its detectives in some special, dramatic light, like a harmless spring meadow before a rapidly impending thunderstorm.