About the book: 2019 / “I saw a child killed... He was strangled upstairs, right next to the horse.” Billy has obvious mental health problems, but he is confident that as a child he saw the murder of a child - and a long-standing anxiety finally brings him to the office of private detective Cormoran Strike, who again became famous after the capture of the Shacklewell Ripper. Billy doesn’t have time to finish, frightened by the prospect of the police arriving soon, but Strike can’t get his story out of his head. Attempts to get to the bottom of the truth will lead Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott (who has become a full-fledged partner in their agency) along a complex, winding path: from outlying clubs where opponents of the London Olympics gather - into the corridors of power saturated with intrigue, from parliamentary offices - to an estate shrouded in mystery in the depths Oxfordshire... But it remains to be seen what will be more difficult for Cormoran and Robin - to solve this puzzling riddle or to understand their feelings... For the first time in Russian!