“Misfortune on a Leash” is a metaphysical thriller, a painful story of an ordinary woman - an exemplary wife, mother of two children, an exemplary public servant, who commits a terrible, inhuman crime. Is the heroine guilty? What are her motives? What or who made her do this? The judge, the police commissioner, investigators, readers, as well as the heroine herself have many questions. The author of the novel does not give the reader a ready-made recipe, but invites him to decide for himself who is guilty in this complicated story and who is the victim. The action of the novel is based on real events.