About the book: 2024 / This story is about the meaning that psychopaths put into the word “love.” His family life has cracked. My wife kicked me out of the apartment. I had to go to the dacha. There he met Inga, his wife’s sister. Word by word. A bottle of cognac. Stormy night... And in the morning they came from the Investigative Committee. The wife was brutally murdered last night. A knife with traces of her blood was found in his car. Inga disappeared without a trace. All the evidence is against it. No chance... He had no choice but to go on the run. He must find the killer himself. Bloody trails led to a slaughterhouse, and then to an abandoned military unit. Where the remains of trucks, some tanks with flat tires, tractors and trailers rusted under the gray sky, he found Inga. And also the man who loved her. He loved to the point of self-forgetfulness, almost as ardently and passionately as the murder process... “Alex Norman’s works are an incredibly accurately conveyed atmosphere of vague horror and danger. The plot develops smoothly, with slight acceleration. The reader is always close to the characters, he hears all the sounds, he catches the smells, he shudders from the northern cold and looks longingly at the low, chilled sky. And there are no murders or blood yet, but the anticipation of the approaching drama is so strong that there is no will to tear yourself away from the book and be distracted by anything else. The power of Norman’s thrillers over us is endless...” - Alexey MAKEEV, writer, co-author of detective novels about detective Gurov.