You have to pay for everything

An old acquaintance of the Kamensky mafia, Denisov (“Playing in a foreign field”, “Killer against his will”) appeals to Nastya to find the murderer of his Austrian friend’s wife. Kamenskaya undertakes to help Denisov and goes on the trail of the criminal organization behind the Austrian murder, which counts a number of strange deaths of scientists and artists. But soon Nastya began to insert poles into the wheels of Arsen and his "office" ("The Stolen Dream"). The fact of cooperation between Kamenskaya and Denisov becomes public knowledge, as a result of which she is suspended from work and subjected to official investigation. And she has no choice but to try to cope with the "office" on her own. But for this you need to understand what Arsen intended.

“The whole work is based on how the unlucky„ disciple of the sorcerer “, Dr. Borodankov, in parallel, tries to get the coveted manuscript and, acting on his mind, sends patients to the next world in his own search for the cherished formula of the drug called“ lacreol ”” ^[2] .

Studying on the example of mass literature of the 1990s and 2000s, the new phenomena of Russian speech and the basic techniques and goals of their use, V. G. Didkovskaya notes in Marinina’s novels a high density of phraseological units, moreover, their use is “predominantly by units of the character sphere of the artistic text” ^{[ 3]} .

John Orzhekhovska finds in the novels of Marinina "opposition to the capital to the provinces, characteristic of the Russian language picture of the world", and it "causes a cultural shock among Russians living abroad" ^[4] .

The novel was filmed by director Yuri Moroz in the second part of the television series "Kamenskaya" .

• The work of Alexandra Marinina as a reflection of the modern Russian mentality. Collection of ed. Elena Trofimova - M .: INION RAS , Institute of Slavonic Studies RAS , 2002. - 190 p. ISBN 5-248-00127-7