Viola Tarakanova will never ignore someone else's misfortune. So now she decided to help a complete stranger. In the restaurant where Vilka and her husband Stepan were having dinner, a stranger approached them, fell to her knees and asked for help. But she was thrown out by Nellie, the wife of the restaurant owner Vadim. She said that it was Valka Yurkina, Vadim’s first wife; they say that she poisoned his mother and daughter-in-law with a cake containing poison. And now she has returned from the zone and is visiting them. Yurkina turned out to be persistent: she waylaid Vilka and Stepan at the entrance of their house, begging them to listen to her. She was allegedly slandered, she did not kill anyone... Detectives began to find out the details of the old story. All the defendants in the case could not be called white and fluffy. And when, step by step, the detectives uncovered another series of suspicious deaths, Viola was at a loss for the first time. But only for a moment. After all, Tarakanova’s motto is: “If you fall on the way to your goal, get up and walk. Can't get up? Crawl towards your goal.” Daria Dontsova is the most popular and sought-after author in our country, a favorite of millions of readers. More than 200 million copies of her books have been sold in Russia. Her work fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, and confidence in the future! “Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don't know any other writer who works so hard. I respect her as an example of hard work as a writer. Women need psychological support and receive it from Dontsova. I myself read several of Dontsova’s novels at one time. It is read by very different people. And very busy business women who need to turn off their heads for a while, and housewives who have a 15-20 minute break between dropping off and picking up their children.” – Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic