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  • MediaDB / «Mrs. Zofia. Your wheel has fallen off” Jacek Galinski: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2023 / The first book in the series of humorous detective stories by Jacek Galinski is captivating not only with its dashingly twisted plot. The main character is annoying, her ridicule is sometimes cruel. However, as the book progresses, the reader becomes imbued with respect and sympathy for her: Mrs. Zofia - a small person, almost invisible - stands alone against the criminal world. And her intelligence and sharp tongue can only be envied. Isn't this the new Miss Marple? Zofia Wilkońska is an elderly lady who lives peacefully in a Warsaw apartment building. Her pension is more than modest, so the old woman often takes a wheeled cart and goes hunting for goods on sale. But one day the unthinkable happens: her apartment is broken into, her valuables and documents are stolen, her late husband’s dress uniform is cynically desecrated. Realizing that she shouldn’t rely on the police, Mrs. Zofia takes the investigation into her own hands. Everything started spinning: apartment swindlers, a small-legged bandit, a dead neighbor, whose murder our heroine is suspected of... Jacek Galinski is a Polish writer, author of sensational ironic detective stories, screenwriter. Graduated from the Warsaw Film School and the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Winner of the short story competition dedicated to the International Detective Fiction Festival in Wroclaw in 2019, holder of the title “Literary Fraud”, laureate of the Detective Stories Festival in Warsaw. In 2019, Jacek Galinski wrote his debut book in the series about Mrs. Zofia, “Your Wheel Has Fallen Off.” Five books have been published in the series. The book contains obscene language!