1905. Asta and Rasmus Vesterby come from Denmark to London with their two sons. Rasmus is constantly traveling on business, and his wife writes a diary alone. Published seventy years later, this diary becomes not just personal memoirs, but the only thread that can lead to unraveling the intricate mysteries. An exciting double detective story spanning almost a century. The life story told in the diaries is closely intertwined with the fate of descendants and people who are completely strangers at first glance. Murder, a missing child, personal secrets, love and hate - a cunning pattern woven by Fate. Each step towards the solution becomes a new mystery, the keys to which are hidden between the lines written many years ago. The novel by Barbara Vine (the literary pseudonym of the queen of British detective Ruth Rendell) “The Book of Asta” is for the first time in Russian.