That hide red poppies

Victoria Platova is a writer with a unique look at the genre of a detective novel. Avoiding stamps and cliches, individual, not similar to anyone, it is rightfully considered one of the best masters of the modern Russian detective. Her books are published in Europe, films are shot on them, they are nominated for leading literary prizes, such as Russian Booker.

What are red poppies?..

pain...

fear...

betrayal...

murder...

in different areas of St. Petersburg find the bodies of young women with a cut throat. The captain of the Bakhmetyev police, investigator Koveshnikov and psychologist Anna Mustaeva are trying to calculate the Pressor and solve his game. The fact that he plays a cruel and dangerous game becomes obvious when they find the third victim - actress Anastasia Ravenskaya. All murders are deliberately theatrically furnished: the victim’s throat is cut by a dangerous razor and slightly sprinkled with earth, the mouth is packed with glass balls. And finally, "red and green." The combination of colors, which gave an unofficial name for this business. The wrists of victims as a personal label of the killer are pulled by trimming the fabric, on which you can still see poppies. Red poppies on the green field...