Children are disappearing one after another in the city. Parents are desperate, the police are convinced that they will return on their own, and there are not enough volunteers for all of them. What if the children are kidnapped for a specific purpose? The case is taken by Oksana Koshkina, nicknamed Cat, who recently returned to the police. It seems that the missing children are part of a larger scheme that involves many parties. The deeper Oksana dives into the case, the more she realizes the scale of the disaster. And the sharper her own memories from the past hurt her.
At the center of events is Lev Garin: a charismatic and attractive corrupt customs officer. "Bad" according to generally accepted concepts, but "good" within the framework of a specific intrigue. The story begins with a high-profile crime: a major businessman Plato and his wife Ariadne, who was also Leo's lover, disappeared without a trace. The protagonist is faced with a choice: to give in to the blackmailers and endanger his career, or not to give in and endanger Ariadne's life. As events unfold, the love affair between Ariadne and Leo turns out to be not just a trap, but an abyss into which the whole life of the hero falls. No longer counting on saving himself, but desperately trying to find a way to save his family, Leo seeks to understand who and for what is taking revenge on him so consistently and subtly.
Every Saturday fireman Anton Kalashnikov welcomes his 14-year-old daughter Kira from the dance. TV, dumplings for dinner - a standard set of entertainment from a Saturday dad for a teenage girl. But on this day, everything went wrong. Kira rings the intercom, Kalashnikov opens the front door, but the girl does not go up to the apartment. Anton has to ask for help from his neighbors in a concrete box, breaking through human indifference and past grievances.
Andrey is a professional negotiator. When people can't agree, he helps them to — for a lot of money. For each dispute, he changes himself beyond recognition. Andrey can convince anyone of anything, anytime and anywhere, but he seems to have a hard time accepting his own self. This twisted psychological thriller tests the limits of how far people can go to get what they want. Cruel, dark, and shockingly manipulative, Andrey proves to be extremely efficient. But is it all worth it in the end? And what is the real cost of his abilities?
The story of a Russian family living and dying through four wars: the Russian Civil War in 1920, the Great Patriotic War in 1942, the First Chechen War in 1996, and the Russian military invasion in Ukraine in 2017.
At the end of the 19th century, a series of mysterious murders occur in the provincial city of N. Metropolitan investigator Goremykin arrives at the crime scene. The search for the perpetrators leads to an unexpected conclusion – a revolutionary circle within the city, which consists of two young men recently returned from Switzerland.
Graduate students in the Historical Museum find a diary dated 1919. In the diary, the author confesses to the murder of five people. The terrible deeds of the past are the key to unraveling a number of crimes committed in our day.
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