About the book: 2014 / Pavel Parfin's book "Crazy Reporter" is a Christmas detective story with a winter touch of mysticism. Late 90s, Sumy city, Christmas Eve. The hero of the book, journalist Evgeniy Bezsonov, had a son a few days ago. Bezsonov is immersed in thoughts about his tiny son, about how to feed his family, how he can finally break out into the world... Bezsonov is going to write a report about a small enterprise that has managed to stay afloat in our difficult times. On the way to the plant, Bezsonov meets a certain Gena, a trailer driver. Gena tells how his trailer was robbed not far from Sumy: they took out sugar in bags, and instead of it, as if in mockery, they stuffed Christmas trees. What to do with a trailer of Christmas trees when the New Year is over?.. The sight of the plant and its workers inspired a terrible melancholy on Bezsonov. What to write about when everything here seemed to be hopelessly frozen, nothing was happening, nothing was developing. Bezsonov is struck by an idea - a mischievous, extravagant one. He persuades Gena to bring Christmas trees to the plant and distributes them to the stunned workers. The plant awakens…