About the book: 2023 / The third and final novel in the “Varvara the Beauty” series. University journalism student Varvara is in a period of disappointment from an unexpected meeting with her former lover, but her long-time friend, investigator Alexey, wants to involve her in the investigation of the strange death of a Moscow laboratory director. So far there is no tangible evidence in the case that there is any connection between this man’s arrival in Perm in the spring and his sudden death in Moscow in the fall. But gradually the thread of the investigation is unraveling. Everyone who came into contact with him during his first trip comes under suspicion. Alexey and Varvara are constantly faced with the fact that new information technologies are used in a possible crime, but the main director of the play seems to be playing a parallel game with them, the result of which depends on chance, almost according to the theory of probability.