About the book: year / Sometimes the dead return! The living dead have appeared in Bystroretsk, but who or what makes them rise from their graves and pursue the living? And how are the terrible events that took place more than a hundred years ago in a tiny fishing village on the banks of the Bystraya River related to this? Misha and Ilya will not see a quiet life: the Lower World with its creepy inhabitants is again invading normal life. Reflecting on the dark secrets of the past, investigating the bloody crimes of the present, friends are balancing on the brink of life and death, and what they learn about in the finale will completely change their destinies... The novel “The Returned” is the fourth book in the “Secrets of the County Town” series».