Biography
Elena Mikhalkov - Russian author of detective novels. The writer itself calls his genre "Life Detective." The works of Elena are permeated with a subtle, understandable humor. The number of published books of the author exceeded a million copies. Detectives are sold across the country, as well as in neighboring Russian-speaking states.Childhood and youth
Elena was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She grew by a quiet, calm, domestic child. Plumbes and walks on the street preferred reading books. Girl's favorite genres became detective and fiction.
Two years old girl studied in a specialized physico-mathematical school, but because She was an absolute "humanitarian", the exact sciences were given to her with difficulty. The schoolgirl found a way out - writing writings for classmates in return for test work on mathematics.
After graduating from school, Mikhalkova entered the University of Lobachevsky to the Faculty of Law. Profession liked Elena. After graduating from the university, she worked as an assistant investigator and planned to work further in the specialty.
Parents of the writer moved to the capital, and she follows them. The girl went into civil law, and after writing the coursework and the dissertations to other students. Soon Elena met his future husband, they got married, and her daughter was born.
Being on maternity leave, Mikhalkova went to the village with his daughter. She forgot to take her favorite children's books with them, so to entertain the child, she composed funny poems. They told them together, painted pictures to them. So Elena discovered writing talent. She no longer returned to work in the authorities.
Literature
The first poems of Elena, by a happy accident, noticed publishers and invited her to cooperate. The first writing work of Mikhalkova steel scenarios for children's entertainment television shows.
The first detective writer (namely he likes to call himself Elena) wrote "on the dispute." The husband did not believe that she could come up with such a plot in which he won't guess who is a criminal. But the husband helped her husband. Mom girl secretly sent a work in the publisher, and they decided to publish it. Since 2007, Mikhalkova has been working in a detective genre.
The detective "time to collect stones" appeared on the shelves of bookstores in 2008. In it, the young couple Victor and Tonya moved to a new country house. Previously, Victor lived in this village, and the couple hoped that joyful memories wake up, but instead the family began to pursue the ghosts of the past. After the guys strained the corpse directly on the porch, they decided to figure out the situation.
Helena has an unusual detective. In the story of the book, no one dies. However, this does not prevent the plot to be tense, confusing and interesting. The book "Island of the dream of a dream" was published in 2008. The motto of the book is "Fear your own desires, because sometimes dreams come true."
The book "Ghost in the Curve of the Mirror" was published in 2009. She is part of a series of books on a private detective Makare Ilyushin. This time, Makar is trying to figure out the situation in which Ksenia girl got. Ksenia returned to his native city to heal spiritual wounds and calm down. But instead, she began to pour in trouble. Perhaps this is an old rival is building a goat. Makar will understand it.
Another detective Elena came out in 2010. The "illusion of the game" talks about the company of fraudsters. One of them decides to tie, but here he meets a talented girl with which he is solved on the "final" case. However, other members of the gang claim the casino chosen as a victim. The finale of the books is absolutely unpredictable, until the very last chapter is not clear how the story will end.
The Eksmo Publishing House decided to release a collection of detective stories "Rubin" in 2011. It includes small stories of successful authors of the publisher. Elena Mikhalkova wrote for him a story "Black Cat in a White Room". Also, Daria Dontsova, Olga Tarasevich, Anna and Sergey Litvinov and other authors participated in the creation of a collection.
"The hunt for a winged lion" is a work about Victoria Matkevich, a girl who is tired of living boring and monotonous. She decided to go to Venice - to fulfill the dream. There, Victoria is inadvertently preventing criminals to make major tool. A girl because of this threatens a danger, but Makar Ilyushin with his friend comes to the rescue.
Detective "Cake from Gorky Almond" came out in 2017. This is another book from a series of works about private detective Makare Ilyushin. This time a man will deal with family secrets. Everyone in the family tried to please the authority grandfather to become a heir. However, someone wanted so much that he decided to murder. The remaining family members witnessed, but no one gives another.
"One woman, one man" is a collection of detective stories. Despite the fact that the stories are less than a full-fledged book, they bring the same pleasure to the reader and preserve intrigue to the last lines. The collection includes the stories of twenty authors of the detective genre, including Elena Mikhalkov.
In an interview, the woman told that she was not sorry to kill his characters, because she was not tied to them. Only once, she was sorry for a young guy in the novel, who was supposed to die to save the bride. There was no other way out how to kill a young man, the author was not, because if he had survived, the novel would be not so exciting and logical.
In his works, Elena describes murders, crimes, but it makes it so easy that readers do not have gloomy thoughts after reading. Her books are reading men, women, teens and pensioners. The author found a universal style for all readers and sticks to him in writing his books.
Personal life
The writer knows very little about the personal life of the writer. During the interview, Elena always categorically refuses to "let alone else's in his garden." She says that it is easier for her to build a fence around all the precious and not to show anyone.
Fans managed to find out only that she has a husband and daughter. The woman independently follows the house, pleases close to delicious dishes. Together with the family, two cats, photographs of which the author pleases his fans in the blog.
Elena Mikhalkov now
The writer simply loves his profession. Her life is books. She is constantly in finding new plots and heroes. Therefore, Elena is now plans to write 3 books in 2018. The plots for them were invented in advance, as for all previous books. In March, a new Detective Elena was released - "No Grasshopper in the Grass".
With the author's publishing house, a strict contract was signed, according to which it should publish a book every 4 months. Such deadlines please fans, because it is not long to wait for the next book masterpiece from Helena Mikhalkova.
Bibliography
- 2008 - "Island of the dream of a dream"
- 2009 - "Ghost in a mirror curve"
- 2010 - "Illusion of the game"
- 2011 - Cinderella and Dragon
- 2012 - "Eight beads on a thin string"
- 2012 - "Cats offended not recommended"
- 2015 - "Hunting of a winged lion"
- 2017 - "Paper Curtain, Glass Crown"
- 2017 - "Mystery of the castle of Urges"
- 2017 - "One Woman, One Man" (Collection)
- 2018 - "Black Poodle, Red Cat, or Wedding with Obstacles"