The action-packed novel by the famous star of the Russian detective Tatyana Ustinova "The Fatal Gift" is written in a signature light and well-recognized manner: twisted intrigue, intelligent humor, reliable everyday details and memorable characters. As always, the novel is full of family secrets and intrigues, there is also a heartfelt love story in it.

The famous writer Marina Pokrovskaya - in the world of Manya Polivanova - is completely depressed. Alex Shan-Giray, the love of her life, is behaving strangely and her work is not going well. In order to collect his thoughts a little, Manya leaves for the city of Belovodsk and becomes a witness to a crime. Right in front of her eyes, a local business man was shot dead, a wealthy, smart, tenacious, faithful husband and kind father, in a word, an ideal man.

Manya begins an investigation, and it turns out that the life of Maxim - that is the name of the murdered in fact, she was not so perfect at all!.. The writer herself is not happy that she got involved in such a dangerous and controversial enterprise ...