Water, Spiderweb is one of the rare novels that seamlessly weaves together different genres into harmony. Within its pages one finds fairy tales, confessions, streams of consciousness, material taken from the Internet, psychological profiles of murderers – all the elements from which life itself is composed in its fullness, complexity, and linguistic diversity. Although a crime takes place in the novel, it does not unfold as a straightforward crime story; rather, the crime serves as a point of departure around which, with remarkable skill, atmospheric precision, refined language, and mastery of shifting narrative registers, the author constructs an impressively layered story that offers the reader no respite. The skeleton of the crime plot touches upon numerous neuralgic points of the transitional and post-transitional period – the entanglement of politics and crime, social disparities, escort services, and shady construction schemes – into which Nada Gašić skillfully embeds various generic, narrative, and even graphic modes. Thus, Water, Spider web also functions as a neighborhood novel in which Zagreb’s Trešnjevka district becomes a metaphor for the world itself.