Talent Eaters Pale skin, fiery red hair, a beautiful evening dress and terrible bruises all over her body - this is how the famous poetess Lyubov Gorokhova was seen by the police officers who arrived at the crime scene... She wrote about love and the meaning of life, about the purpose of the poet and poetry - and she was brutally murdered in the dirty basement of a residential building. And a little later, two more corpses are discovered in Lyubov’s apartment: her friend-philanthropist, who helped publish, Severtsev, and his old friend, the poet Meshchersky. It seems that someone set out to kill the most talented writers in the city!.. A silver bullet in the heart Stella was brutally killed with one blow in the assembly hall of the gymnasium... Someone brutally killed Nina in her own home... Tamara met a terrible death in the toilet of the registry office ... At first glance, nothing connected them except absolutely identical pendants around their necks - gold coins with the image of a lady in a hat. The investigation is undertaken by professionals: successful lawyer Lisa Travina and her irreplaceable assistants – Glafira and Denis. There may be more victims, because in total five such gold jewelry were made. But the rest of the “lucky ones” still have no idea about the real price of the mysterious lady in the hat...