Ghost of music

The owner of a travel company, Elena Dudareva, was blown up in her car. The operatives manage to find a witness who may have remembered the killer. Nineteen-year-old Artyom Kipiani sees almost nothing, but he hears very well, and therefore remembered the music that the killer listened to with headphones. And now Nastya Kamenskaya has a problem: does she have the right to risk this young man like that?

Ilya Ovchinnikov in the article “The Pendulum of Marinina” wrote:

“ Requiem ” and “The Phantom of Music” seem to be written in the same handwriting as “ Killer involuntarily ”, but something has changed. And the matter is not only in pompous and almost identical titles ... not only in simplifying dialogs and complicating author's retreats; not only that Marinina turns into a moralizer and teacher of life. Her previous books were just fine as detective stories - in the best of them at least three storylines were usually developed, which managed to weave in the most bizarre way to the finale. In the last two novels - exactly the same line; and even the most perplexing reader will figure out the killer around the middle of the book. [one]

Vyacheslav Kuritsyn responded even more caustically:

Kuritsyn also reproached the writer for being “no longer preoccupied with subtle character prescribing” , that “ Wise heroes” appear in “The Phantom of Music ” , Nastya Kamenskaya “demonstrates miracles of supermanhood, easily recognizing music that she was only told about” ^[3] .