Life in the Far Forest is anything but peaceful: not a day goes by without crimes, chases, suspicions, and brutal intrigues. Finally, all the books in Anna Starobinets's 'Beastly Detective' series—'The Wolf's Lair,' 'The Predator's Right,' 'The Claws of Wrath,' and 'The Pickpocket'—are being published under a single cover, with 'The Pickpocket' being released for the first time.

Each book is a standalone detective story, with the investigation led by the elderly and experienced detective Badger Senior and his assistant, the daring and desperate Badgercat.
All the heroes of this book series are animals, but they know how to love and hate, lie and tell the truth, trust and despair, betray and save no worse than us, human readers. It's only at the end that you figure out who's friend and who's foe, who's the innocent furry victim and who's the fatal predator, who's the hostage and who's the captor, because according to the genre's rules, the perpetrator remains unknown until the very end. But it's clear as day that all the stories are written with humor and irony, and the plots will captivate not only children but their parents as well.