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The novel Water, Spiderweb by contemporary Croatian writer Nada Gašić begins with a dramatic event: a major flood that engulfed and devastated several Zagreb neighbourhoods, including Trešnjevka, in late October 1964. It is at this time that the reader meets one family, and in the next chapter, he or she is transported with the members of this family to 2009, to the same Trešnjevka neighbourhood, and follows their life in the present. The author focuses on the lives of the three sisters and the same Zagreb neighbourhood in which the crime was committed. But the writer does not limit herself to the detective genre; there are also elements of family drama, fairy tales, and even women's popular fiction. Weddings, murders, complicated sisterhoods, tangled marriages, police investigations, conversations between random passers-by - all these are elements of a non-trivial, fascinating narrative, thought out to the smallest detail, written in different linguistic styles, which give authenticity to the novel, which will intrigue the reader from the first to the last page.