About the book: 2017 / During her many years of service in the press center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Ekaterina Petrovskaya got used to a lot. But she, like the chief of the police criminal department, Colonel Gushchin, was shocked by the case they were investigating this time. A disfigured corpse of a man was discovered in a forest near Moscow - with a severed head and hands, with signs of torture. This crime led to a chain of other mysterious murders, and all of them together lead to the Patriarchal Ponds, famous since the time of Bulgakov. There, in one of the fashionable houses, lives the luxurious beauty Regina Kutaisova and her daughter Pelopeya, who lost her memory and beauty three years ago after an accident. Katya and her new partner Klavdiy Mamontov will have to find out and understand what such a terrible thing happened three years ago, since revenge turned out to be so terrible?..