About the book: 2014 / It seemed that nothing around her foreshadowed a future tragedy, but it was about to play out within the walls of this house. The garden was quiet and cool. The violets and daffodils were fragrant. But the monstrous shadow of crime hung like an invisible and gloomy cloud over everything that exists. Crimes of the unusual, the strange... Everything is intertwined in him - love and hatred, generosity and greed, human courage and human cruelty. No wonder the judges would later call this high-profile trial the crime of the century…