The First Rule of a Queen
Pervoje pravilo korolevy
Eksmo, 2003
384 pp.

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Inna Seliverstova, head of the Information Department of the Belovarsk Territory, The Queen of Saba, Cleopatra, a bitch and a “stinker”, as her opponents call her, is confused for the first time. The local Governor Mukhin was killed. Then somebody shot his widow dead as well, with Inna present next room. Like a sleepwalker, she seized some newspapers marked 'To Ms. Seliverstova' - and fled from that terrible house. The morning after, it was announced that Mukhina had died from a heart attack. A struggle for the Governor's throne begins. And here the main pretender, tycoon Alexander Yastrebov,  appears. Inna was ter­rified to recognize him as her casual lover who “comforted” her after her divorce. This is too much for Inna: she cannot unravel the Mukhins' murder, her strange liaison with Yastrebov continues, and she feels drawn into some terrible game. She has to outplay her adversary before he destroys her...

The Personal Angel
Personalnyi angel
Eksmo, 2003
320 pp.

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While reading a political profile of an oligarch Timophey Koltsov, Katerina, a PR agency analyst, feels that her chief has undertaken an almost ruinous task - to raise that gloomy, cynical millionaire to the position of the region’s governor.  But she changes her mind when Koltsov saves her life protecting her from bullets  by his body in a machine-gunned car. Little by little Katerina realizes that she is falling in love with him. Timophey rescues her again when she is accused of confidential information disclosure…

The Divorce and a Maiden Name
Razvod I devichja familia
Eksmo, 2002
384 pp.

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More than a year ago Kira divorced her husband Sergey. Fifteen years before, when their love was burning like a lit fuse, this turn of events was unthinkable. Their son Tim still cannot accept it and dreams of recon­ciling them. And now there is a good chance to do it, in fact a terrible business. Somebody shot Kira’s boss, Editor-in-Chief of a well-reputed magazine, on the stairs next to her door. The police seem to suspect Kira, and her son Tim turns to his father for help. Sergey comes in no time. He would do his best to get his former yet still beloved wife out of trouble...

One Shadow for Two
Odna ten’ na dvoikh
Eksmo, 2002
416 pp.

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Andrei Danilov is a son of well-known parents. They expected him to become a professional musician but he chose to be an architect.  One day he returns home and finds his wife dead… Fortunately, Andrei has a strong alibi. But misfortunes continue to trap him  later on. A ready to be finished private residence of a wealthy client is disfigured; one of his colleagues is killed. Someone is trying to crush Danilov. He would never take up this challenge,  if Marta – a woman who’d loved him all her life – was not next to him. Having his beloved one by his side he feels that he can cope with anything.