About the book: 1999 / If the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law is glorified by countless anecdotes and serves as an inexhaustible source of ridicule, then mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are worthy of great tragedy. What could be more dramatic than a mother-in-law’s visit to her beloved son’s home, where her daughter-in-law is in charge? Only a grandiose dinner, which the daughter-in-law is planning in her honor, trying to appease and impress the formidable guest. So Ellie Haskell was knocked off her feet, preparing a roast, looking into all corners in search of dust and laying out knitted napkins everywhere. And how can one not get excited if the previous visit of Mommy and Daddy coincided with the peak of the sinister activities of the Widow’s Club?! Of course, then the matter was resolved in the most favorable way, but suddenly the mother-in-law imagined that her daughter-in-law’s path was strewn with corpses and flooded with streams of blood? No, this time everything will be different, Ellie decides. And he gets into all kinds of bad things. In a word, with the arrival of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, serious passions raged in Merlin Court. At this point you will inevitably run to the nearest pub to come to your senses at least a little. Ellie does just that, but to her misfortune, all the other daughters-in-law, whom their loving mothers-in-law almost drove to suicide, also come running there. Or murders...What a wonderful game this is - to paint in colors the scene of the murder of your own mother-in-law. What is better to use: poison, a rolling pin or a broken bicycle? My head is spinning from such tempting prospects. But the trouble is that the innermost thoughts expressed out loud begin to come true. Mommy, a formidable mother-in-law and a little confused old lady rolled into one, does not at all deserve such a sad fate. And then Ellie decides to snatch Mommy from the clutches of the mother-in-law killer at all costs. And at the same time bring the villain to clean water…