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The follow up to azarewicz'sharrowing eby Nie Byo ladw (Leave No Trace) depicting the case of the politicalmurder of Grzegorz Przemykwhich earned azarewicz the Nike Literary Award in 2017the Gorgonowa Casefocuses on the case of Rita Gorgonowa, a cause clbre of the interwarperiod in Poland.Gorgonowa, a governess having an affair with her employer, was accused of brutally murdering his daughter, the 17-year-old Lusia on New Years Eve in 1931. Despite her claims of innocence, Gorgonowa was declaredPolands ultimate villain, and eventually convicted.But questions remain about this casethe most notorious murder trial of the Second Polish Republicalong with questions about what exactly happened to Gorgonowa post-World War II.azarewicz revisits the crime with a contemporary lens and recreates the furor and celebrity revolving around this murder.