"It’s high time Polish filmmakers made an adaptation of Katarzyna Puzynska’s books. Daniel Podgórski and Klementyna Kopp are one of the most intriguing investigative teams in the modern crime fiction and the fourth part of their adventures keeps you engrossed until the last page. I strongly recommend the book”
Leszek Lichota, actor
This story reminds me a lot of classical idyllic provincial detective story of Agatha Christie. But this idyll is only a facade and a game of appearances. With successive corpses and secrets the action is gaining momentum. Seemingly unrelated threads begin to interweave and we get to know the dark, unpleasant past secrets and sins of the inhabitants of the Masurian village. Honest and innocent atmosphere of the quiet village disappears somewhere, and in its place anxiety and fear appear. Tangled intrigue and expressive characters make it difficult to stop reading until you reach the surprising last page.
Gaja Grzegorzewska, writer
Puzynska portrays both the protagonists and the background characters with equal care. You are engrossed in the plot until the end. The author uses a proven trick typical for Christie - in a small community almost everyone is a suspect, everyone is hiding something, everyone is lying, because they are guilty of something. So it is important not only to answer the main question: who is killing?, but also to uncover the secrets of subsequent characters. The author has already mastered criminal prose and has an obvious talent for inventing criminal stories.
Robert Ostaszewski, literary critic
If Agatha Christie wrote her detective stories with Miss Marple today, her character would not be a distinguished old lady. It would probably be someone like Clementine Kopp from Katarzyna Puzynska’s novels: cheeky old lady in a leather coat with tattoos on her arms, shattered by the incidents of her life, and too experienced to care for anyone. Miss Marple and Clementine Kopp both have shrewd mind. Both are able to see through the mask that people put on. And, most importantly, both are products of their times. Is Miss Marple dead? Long live Clementine Kopp!
Marta Guzowska, writer