Yakovleva Yu. Sky in Diamonds: [novel] / Yulia Yakovleva. — M.: Alpina Non-fiction, 2024. — 318 pages. — (Historical Detective Series). ISBN 978-5-91671-359-6 The third book in the series about detective Vasily Zaitsev, who this time must investigate the murder of an actress whose fame echoed in the recently passed era of silent cinema. What was the motive: missing jewels or secret memoirs containing compromising material on many well-known contemporaries of the movie star? As always with Yakovleva, the thrilling detective plot is merely a reason to tell about the era when the stars of sound cinema were rising, and those of silent cinema were fading and forgotten. This is a novel about lost illusions and broken destinies, about Leningrad communal apartments of the 1930s and their inhabitants, and also about the new Soviet elite: the author skillfully introduces Utyosov, Orlova, Aleksandrov, and many other real historical figures into the book. UDC 821.621.111-312.4 BBK 84(2=411.2)6-445.7