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V vysshuyu ligu sovremennoj literatury Kejt Atkinson popala s pervoj zhe popytki: ee debyutnyj roman 'Muzej moih tajn' poluchil prestizhnuyu Uitbredovskuyu premiyu, obojdya 'Proshchal'nyj vzdoh mavra' Salmana Rushdi, a cikl romanov o chastnom detektive Dzheksone Broudi, uspevshij polyubit'sya i rossijskomu chitatelyu ('Prestupleniya proshlogo', 'Povorot k luchshemu', 'ZHdat' li dobryh vestej?', 'CHut' svet, s sobakoyu vdvoem'), Stiven King okrestil 'glavnym detektivnym proektom desyatiletiya'. Na osnove pervyh knig cikla na Bi-bi-si snyali teleserial 'Prestupleniya proshlogo' s Dzheksonom Ajzeksom v glavnoj roli. Na etot raz dejstvie proiskhodit v shotlandskoj stolice, navodnennoj turistami vo vremya znamenitogo ezhegodnogo Edinburgskogo festivalya iskusstv. Snova Dzhekson Broudi okazyvaetsya svidetelem, kazalos' by, nichem ne svyazannyh epizodov: vidnyj biznesmen, pod kotorogo uzhe vovsyu kopaet otdel ekonomicheskih prestuplenij, popadaet v bol'nicu s infarktom pri ves'ma komprometiruyushchih obstoyatel'stvah; otliv ostavlyaet na beregu telo devushki s serezhkami-krestikami, no priliv snova unosit ego v more, nesmotrya na vse staraniya sluchajno okazavshegosya ryadom Broudi. Mestnaya policiya vidit v nem v luchshem sluchae lzheca, a to i podozrevaemogo...