The owner of the private nursing home "Garden of Eden", located in the Crimean mountains, contacts the detective agency "Kairos" with a request to find Sergei Egorovich Novikov. On a winter evening during a snowstorm, he went to visit and did not return. The searches yielded no results. Novikov is not young, and everything suggests that he most likely died. But Sergei Egorovich is not an ordinary pensioner! A retired naval officer, captain of the first rank, winner of numerous awards, he more than once balanced on the brink of life and death. The inhabitants of the house are sure that Novikov is alive. Asya Subbotina and Ivan Rybak go on a search and become convinced that the witnesses are not entirely sincere and are sometimes not who they say they are... In the novel “The Tower of the Winds,” Irina Green fully revealed her talent as a subtle psychologist and a brilliant realist artist. The reader will once again find an abundance of storylines, unexpected twists and bright, memorable characters. This novel by Irina Green, like her other works, is distinguished by the author’s excellent style and rich Russian language, which will remind readers of the classic novels of Russian literature.