The book “Night Shadows” includes two novels: “The Trap” and “The Werewolf” from the “Detective Petrusenko: Descendants” series. The Trap. This is a modern action-packed love drama - dynamic, psychological, with elements of eroticism. It begins as a popular joke: a husband returns from a business trip and finds his wife with her lover. But further plot twists are extraordinary and difficult to predict. Murder and investigation, a series of correct investigative guesses that ultimately lead to the wrong conclusion and miscarriage of justice. The novel contains an excursion into the story of the acquaintance and love of the two main characters - Alexander and Lydia. And also - the story of growing mutual misunderstanding, which led to the fact that Lydia, while continuing to love her husband, becomes the mistress of another man. Werewolf. The main character of the book is a twelve-year-old boy Seryozha. His journalist father brings into the house a man who appears to him to be a victim and with whose help he plans to conduct his journalistic investigation. But this is a maniac-killer, and great efforts have been devoted to searching for him. The boy and the killer pass through the novel hand in hand - victim and persecutor. Their fight is rich in unexpected turns, since both have extraordinary thinking. The boy often wins with his unpredictability of actions. However, in the end he finds himself in a trap... The investigation is headed by Major Kandaurov.roman