Darkness after dawn
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Darkness after dawn
4.99 €
Even if dawn breaks, it will be replaced by darkness again...
November 1982. The Smelyanskys' wedding anniversary is overshadowed by the death of Leonid Brezhnev. A new General Secretary is a great stress for people with much to lose. And the Smelyanskys and their guests are precisely such people—a true elite of the nomenklatura. But that's not the worst of it. That evening, their thirteen-year-old son, Seryozha, and a friend's daughter, Alena, went to the cinema and never returned...
After a call "from the very top," police Major Viktor Gordeyev is recruited to help search for the missing children. His promotion to deputy head of the homicide department depends on a quick and, most importantly, positive result. But what guarantees can there be? What if they're already dead? Especially since a serial killer is on the loose in the country, killing teenagers aged 13 to 16. And Gordeyev's friend, Leonid Cheremenin, a criminal investigator, suspects the worst.
However, his adopted daughter, Nastya Kamenskaya, a recent law graduate from Moscow State University, has a different opinion: the missing children don't fit the serial killer's pattern. The detectives begin pursuing all possible leads. And then the KGB joins the investigation...
Alexandra Marinina's first retro detective story. A surprisingly accurate depiction of the late USSR, the mood of the people, their fears and hopes. Criminals, police and KGB officers, ordinary citizens, and those who were allowed access to the "socialist trough"—each with their own story and motives.
November 1982. The Smelyanskys' wedding anniversary is overshadowed by the death of Leonid Brezhnev. A new General Secretary is a great stress for people with much to lose. And the Smelyanskys and their guests are precisely such people—a true elite of the nomenklatura. But that's not the worst of it. That evening, their thirteen-year-old son, Seryozha, and a friend's daughter, Alena, went to the cinema and never returned...
After a call "from the very top," police Major Viktor Gordeyev is recruited to help search for the missing children. His promotion to deputy head of the homicide department depends on a quick and, most importantly, positive result. But what guarantees can there be? What if they're already dead? Especially since a serial killer is on the loose in the country, killing teenagers aged 13 to 16. And Gordeyev's friend, Leonid Cheremenin, a criminal investigator, suspects the worst.
However, his adopted daughter, Nastya Kamenskaya, a recent law graduate from Moscow State University, has a different opinion: the missing children don't fit the serial killer's pattern. The detectives begin pursuing all possible leads. And then the KGB joins the investigation...
Alexandra Marinina's first retro detective story. A surprisingly accurate depiction of the late USSR, the mood of the people, their fears and hopes. Criminals, police and KGB officers, ordinary citizens, and those who were allowed access to the "socialist trough"—each with their own story and motives.
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