About the book: 2019 / Crime columnist of the Moscow Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate Ekaterina Petrovskaya, together with Colonel Gushchin, become participants in the investigation of the brutal massacre of the family of the famous writer Claudia Pervomaiskaya. “The last great children's classic” was killed on the eve of her centenary, along with her daughter and granddaughter, at a dacha in the famous settlement of the Russian intelligentsia, “Shining Path.” Katya and Colonel Gushchin will have to unravel the dark tangle of secrets that have surrounded the controversial personality of Pervomaiskaya all her life, who wrote poems and fairy tales for children and at the same time wrote dozens of denunciations during the Soviet era. What caused such an inhumane crime? And who was the main target of the killer - the centenarian writer herself or one of her loved ones?..