Невеста вечности

Аннотация:

The chapel drowned in white colors. The walls have funeral wreaths. Digging roses and lilies are scattered on the floor. And like a mirage against the background of the wall, a pedestal of black polished wood. And on it is a skeleton in a wedding white dress, decorated with gold - dozens of chains, rings, bracelets, a watch on bony hands ... a skull with empty eye sockets ... a braid in a hand, devoid of flesh. In the first instant, seeing this strange figure, the police captain Ekaterina Petrovskaya thought: this is some kind of focus, a performance ... But then a wild anxiety squeezed her heart. The head was spinning from the stuffiness, from the smell of dead flowers, from hot wax. In order not to fall, she clung to the hand of the investigator Strashilin. Where did they get such a seemingly simple case of the murder of pensioner Ilya Ufimtsev? .. What happened in the house of the old Ufimtsev, a former party functionary who read the Bible and who spoke with the nuns of the nearest monastery in the declining years? .. The novels of the hereditary investigator Tatyana Stepanova allow the reader to visit the literary “Room of Fear”. The mysterious murders, the almost tangible atmosphere of the crime, the languid and disturbing expectation of something unknown, frightening ... All this Tatyana Stepanova manages to reproduce simply brilliantly. Random meetings, everyday affairs, minor details are portrayed in its detectives in some special, dramatic light, like a harmless spring meadow before a rapidly impending thunderstorm.