“Zero enigmatico,” the poster shouted. “Zero misterioso,” echoed another. “Spettacolo unico!” – third, fourth, fifth... The shows of the illusionist Zero are booming all over Italy! One such evening of “unique, mysterious, mysterious” magic made the holidays of 15-year-old Nina, Vanya and Nastya unforgettable. In the most frightening sense of the word. Nina spent a whole year in Sicily, far from her native St. Petersburg - her family had to move here, hiding from persecution. The move has changed Nina: she no longer sees dinosaurs in passers-by (now there are monsters with tentacles!), communicates with her best friends only on the Internet (until they come to visit!), and most importantly, she does not draw (only in her imagination!). Something is tormenting her, some unresolved story from a past life - a story connected with her parents. Evgenia Ovchinnikova continues the detective trilogy about the talented, resourceful, but not too self-confident Nina. As in the book “Go and Come Back,” the center of events in “Zero Magic” is not so much the crime as the development of the relationships between the main and secondary characters. Now - on an international scale and with close attention to progressive science.