About the book: 2012 / Truly Shakespearean passions are in full swing in a small town near Moscow; terrible events take place here at intervals of more than half a century. The memory of Lyubov Zykova, who in the fifties was the culprit of the mass poisoning of children in a pioneer camp, is still fresh. Now another poisoning has occurred here - of three heiresses of a huge fortune. The eldest, the beautiful Gertrude, died at a banquet given in honor of her grandmother's anniversary. Ophelia and Viola, as well as the hero of the occasion, Adele Arkhipova, ended up in the hospital. Katya Petrovskaya, a crime columnist at the press center of the Moscow Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate, is trying to find an invisible connection between the crimes of the past and the present and figure out who decided to continue the work of the “child poisoner,” if “Lyubka the Witch” herself was literally torn apart by the crowd back in the distant fifties. parts, and her body was burned in an abandoned workshop of an old factory?..