About the book: 2014 / This criminal case of terrible murders became increasingly monstrous and frightening. And police captain Ekaterina Petrovskaya, an employee of the Press Center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, could no longer sleep at night - after she saw photographs of young women - victims of the “May Killer”. Two years ago, in hot pursuit, Rodion Shadrin, a mentally ill man, was arrested and sent to a mental hospital for life. The city and the entire region breathed a sigh of relief. But here again is the month of May - and again a double murder, which Shadrin could not have committed - he was in a specialized clinic. So the maniac is still at large? And what do his messages mean - strange, unrelated objects were left on the bodies of the victims: shards of pottery, an old alarm clock, pillowcases and a leather whip from an intimate store…