Anna Danilova's action-packed novels are fascinating detective stories in which the author, with the help of psychological puzzles and complex intricacies of feelings, reveals the deep motives that pushed the heroes to commit crimes. This time, the famous lawyer Boris Bronnikov will have to help his neighbor Emma, whose tyrant husband dies in circumstances suspiciously similar to murder. Who is to blame - the young man who was hiding from justice in Emma's house and promised to save his beloved from her tormentor, or is everything much more complicated? Zhenya Bronnikova cannot stay away and is included in the investigation.