About the book: year / The famous actress commits suicide for no apparent reason. Almost a year after this, in another city, a woman named Ksenia, for whom the actress was the idol of her youth, accidentally learns the truth about her death: it was a murder disguised as a suicide. Ksenia finds the opportunity to inform about this to a person who is quite influential and has a direct relationship with the actress. And he begins a secret investigation, not expecting an unexpected outcome. The conflict between Marina and Victor, which forms the psychological basis of the detective, belongs to the category of “eternal”. Two extraordinary individuals with high self-esteem and a pronounced creativity are rarely happy with each other due to the fact that they cannot sacrifice their “I” even for the sake of love. There are many examples of this in history and literature: Antony and Cleopatra, Radda and Loiko Zobar, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. (There are examples among the Soviet artistic elite). The truth, suddenly revealed to the successful and seemingly invulnerable television journalist and politician Victor, forces him not only to suffer deeply, but also to reconsider many of his life positions.