1826 Countess Vera Chernysheva learned from her own experience what it means to fall from the heights of prosperity into complete obscurity: after the uprising on Senate Square, her brother was arrested, and then her family was deprived of almost all their property. However, the Countess's troubles do not end there - someone is trying to blow up her crew. Vera retires to her grandmother’s estate, but in quiet Polesie they try to kill her again. Trying to unravel the deadly charade and catch the killer, Captain Shcheglov takes on the investigation of the crimes. “Bomb for the Countess” is the first novel by Martha Tarot, which opens the fascinating “Gallant Detective” series, the heroes and intricacies of the plots of which seem to have come out of the layouts of mysterious Tarot cards.