Bold, erotic, and deliciously dark, “Grappig” fuses art history, architecture, and a dash of culinary indulgence into a jet-fuel thriller that zips between Kherson and Belgium.

Our nearly fifty-year-old heroine gazes at her lover’s lifeless body and wonders: did she kill him, or did someone else? She chases—and is chased by—the Belgian police while obsessing over a mysterious Rembrandt painting that still divides scholars. Fiercely unapologetic in both food and sex, she embodies the resilience of Ukrainian women who know freedom’s price and refuse to let offenders go unpunished.