About the book: 2024 / Police captain Sevastyan Kryukov is a well-known personality in Starozavodsk. A menace of bandits and a fan of alcohol, he does not disdain petty love affairs. One of them ended tragically: after Kryukov left, the unfortunate woman was found brutally strangled, with earrings torn out of her ears. Some time later, three more women died in the same way. And each time, shortly before death, they all had relationships with Sevastian. Investigator Ilya Milovanov has no doubt: the dissolute captain has a direct connection to the bloody series. In his conclusions, the detective does not even allow the thought that the real killer is a completely different person... Another exciting story in which human feelings are severely tested by harsh circumstances. Author-power, author-love, author-nostalgia - for the times when the world was ruled by strict concepts and real men.