The palace of the drowned man. Mangan K.

Frankie Krao is a writer whose glory from the time of publication of a very successful debut novel managed to fade in order. After reading an unflattering review of her last book, she experiences a public nervous breakdown and temporarily leaves London to Venice in order to save a shaken reputation and overcome the creative crisis. In this ghostly city, where endless labyrinths of streets and channels are able to drive crazy, Frankie meets a girl named Gilly, who calls herself a fan and stubbornly seeks to win her friendship.

But what of what Gilly says is true, and what is a lie? What are her true motives? Does anyone still live in an empty old Palazzo, where Frankie settled? Or maybe all this is a game of her upset imagination? The masterfully described by Venice, insidious and ominous, acts as a full -fledged heroine of this elegant psychological thriller, whose events, undoubtedly, could not have happened in any other place.