About the book: year / Rustam Umyarov, “the owner of factories, newspapers, ships,” who settled with a company at a weather station located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, was stabbed to death with a knife. Everyone who happens to be in the same house with him is suspected. The stranger cannot kill - few people are able to get to the God-forsaken place. The investigation is stalled: there is no satellite communication, a terrible blizzard is playing out, the station chief goes on a drinking binge, the generator breaks down, and the backup one does not start... The cold, darkness, isolation from civilization are aggravated by anxiety: the killer is nearby. Who is he? Rustam's girlfriend is the beautiful Veronica? His clumsy son, resentful of his father for his mother? Hunt organizer? Umyarov's assistant? Business partner? A friend-official? Maxim, a former military man, now a major in the Russian Guard, who came to meet his wife’s parents, meteorologists, is forced to investigate the murder.