Genevieve Shirley's dream is to buy a small boat and settle somewhere on the river, saying goodbye to London forever. But literally the next morning after the wish came true, the dead body of Genevieve’s best friend is found in the water next to the floating house. From this moment on, the girl's life turns into an endless nightmare. New corpses, someone's attempts at night to break into her home... Who is behind all this? What do they want from her? And is the cause of these terrible events a mysterious package left for safekeeping by one of her acquaintances? For the first time in Russian, a new novel by Elizabeth Haynes, who successfully combines two professions - a police analyst and a talented writer.