Changed First-Person Peripheral Narrator back to Supporting Protagonist. It seems to me that Varvara can't be a First Person Peripheral Narrator because she isn't the narrator; she is a POV character but the story is told in the third person.
The definition of Supporting Protagonist says "Some writers like to mix it up by choosing someone that does not have the central role in the story and tell the story from their perspective. This is the Supporting Protagonist: someone who would normally be a secondary character by conventions of the genre but is actually the main character in the story". And it also says "In a mystery, it means choosing someone other than the detective", which is what happens in this novel. The narration follows Varvara from beginning to end.
Changed First-Person Peripheral Narrator back to Supporting Protagonist. It seems to me that Varvara can't be a First Person Peripheral Narrator because she isn't the narrator; she is a POV character but the story is told in the third person.
The definition of Supporting Protagonist says "Some writers like to mix it up by choosing someone that does not have the central role in the story and tell the story from their perspective. This is the Supporting Protagonist: someone who would normally be a secondary character by conventions of the genre but is actually the main character in the story". And it also says "In a mystery, it means choosing someone other than the detective", which is what happens in this novel. The narration follows Varvara from beginning to end.