Margarita Khemlin is the author of the novels “Klotsvog”, “Extreme”, a collection of short stories and novellas “Living Line”, a finalist for the “Big Book” award, “Russian Booker”. In the novel “The Interrogator”, as in all her books, Behind the adventurous plot lies a harsh picture of Soviet life in the thirties and fifties of the twentieth century. A young woman has been killed in a provincial Ukrainian city. Is this a criminal offense or part of a political conspiracy? Everyone is a suspect. And in everything. “The Interrogator” is the unique language of an era and place, a special manner of thinking, these are destinies born of phantasmagoric circumstances of real life, and characters that have not been described by anyone in literature.