Lawrence Gough lives in Vancouver and writes plays for Radio Canada. The collection offered to the reader presents three works by the author, which are the beginning of his popular series of novels, in which the main characters are Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker. A corpse in the “lotus” position was discovered on the ice of a pond in a Chinese park. The investigation establishes that the murdered man is the owner of the Chinese Times newspaper. The solution lies at the intersection of different plot lines of the novel “Serious Crimes.” A special black humor distinguishes Lawrence Gough's books, which are popular not only in Canada.