Having ears, but he will hear. Stepanova T.Yu.

1826. Claire Clermont and Evgraf Komarovsky become ally in the investigation of a series of terrible crimes. In the estate of Islav brutally killed a family - a judicial official, his young daughter and a maid. And this is just a link in a chain of bloody events that shocked the Odintsovo district many years ago, associated with the name of the one whom the peasants call the dark. Trying to reveal the gloomy mystical secrets of the past and brutal murders, enduring, risking and not retreating, they go their way towards the truth. Two charismatic antagonists, two absolute antipodes, who are drawn by the power of flashing feelings for each other...

“Creating this detective, working with the material, I was amazed at how acute and urgently history and modernity are when events are connected when the events The past is so reminiscent of our difficult reality. No, my readers, this is not a historical detective. This is a detective about life in the 20s. Well, choose the eyelids yourself. I deliberately included some things in the text of the novel, quite modern and well recognizable. I did this because sometimes it seems: we became deaf and blind to the lessons of the past. I want to provide my reader with the freedom of choice - how to read and understand my new detective. A wider look will make it possible to make out all its faces, all hidden metaphors and parallels. Perhaps something will seem new to you, amazing. ” - Tatyana Stepanova