What could be better than sitting down in a cozy chair with a cup of tea and immersing yourself in reading a pleasant detective story? Is that just three detective stories included in Marina Inayani’s collection: “The Reluctant Monster”, “I Saw Everything... the Beginning” and “Shadows of the Past. Confession". Here is a strange disheveled guy with the eyes of a man who has lived, it would seem, more than one life. There is one small detail here that can hardly be called evidence, but who knows? And here is the story of a now successful journalist who will experience for himself that not all the secrets of the past are worth bringing to light from those basements in which they gather dust. Interesting characters, complex plot weaves, exciting dialogues, and difficult choices facing the heroes. After all, the path of justice is not always clear-cut, or?.. Editor's comment: Bizarre fiction and strict reality, mystical coincidences and obvious facts. How to find a parallel between them and not go crazy?