They stood, as if nailed to the floor, unable to look away from the female figure in an armchair. Dark red curtains were drawn, and thick twilight reigned in the room. A ray of light, unexpectedly bright, made his way from a narrow gap between the curtains and fell on a woman at the table. She sat with her head back, with a straight back and smiled at the uninvited guests. After a long time, they realized that the woman was not smiling. Dead eyes looked over their heads. The thick golden silk cord, wrapping his neck, was tied with a knot around the high back of the chair and held the body in an unnaturally direct position, preventing it from falling … The elaborate pendulum of the tall Gothic watches in the corner of the room with a metal beem moved from side to side, and something frighteningly strange in a motionless human figure and a lively movement of a non-sophisticated mechanism …
Author
Bachinskaya Inna Yuryevna
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Detective of strong passions. Novels by I. Bachinskaya
Genre
Modern domestic prose
16+
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