About the book: 2017 / The anniversary of the sculptor Leonard Ruban was celebrated on New Year's Eve. A motley group gathered at his estate to celebrate two holidays at once. But the fun did not work out: at first the owner fell into depression and retired to his workshop. Then one of the invitees, journalist Andrei, went to a neighboring village to replenish food supplies and disappeared. The men who went in search of him found only an empty, overturned jeep. And the next day, a socialite, the beautiful Zoya, was killed, and only one of the inhabitants of the house could have done this... It was impossible to turn to the authorities for help due to a snowstorm, so the former operative, and now a philosophy teacher, Fedor took over the investigation Alekseev. He was invited under the guise of a friend by Ruban, who, as it turned out, had long feared for his life…