Trzeba mieć doprawdy ślepe szczęście, żeby wybrawszy się na raki, odkryć sarkofag scytyjskiego księcia. Albo wygrać walkę z… duchem. Nie mówiąc już o skutecznym pokonaniu najprawdziwszego horroru w postaci przeprowadzki. A gdy do tego jeszcze serce mocniej bije…
Joanna Chmielewska is the pen name of Irena Kühn (born 2 April 1932 in Warsaw), a Polish writer and screenplay author. Her work is often described as "ironic detective stories". Her novels, which have been translated into at least nine languages, have sold more than 6 million copies in Poland and over 10 million in Russia.
Joanna Chmielewska graduated as an architect in 1954 from Warsaw University of Technology, and worked as a designer before devoting herself to writing. Her first short story was published in the magazine Kultura i Życie (Culture and Life) in 1958 and her first novel, Klin (The Wedge), in 1964. She loves horse races and gambling: both hobbies have been mentioned extensively in her books. She is also a connoisseur of amber, a passion which form the basis for her 1998 novel Złota mucha (The Golden Fly).
To date, she has written more than fifty novels. Most frequently, the protagonist is a woman called Joanna that inherits many characteristics from Chmielewska herself. She also often writes about Joanna's friends like Alicja (We Are All Suspects, All in Red), co-workers (We Are All Suspects, Wild Protein) or family (The Forefathers' Wells, Bad Luck).
This time we get three short stories about Tereska and her friends: first they go crayfishing, than they need to move house in a hurry, and finally they go ghost-hunting. Lots of fun, I enjoyed it very much. Five stars.