About the book: 2023 / A stunning story about how in the distant Soviet years a famous singer, Brezhnev’s favorite, was killed, and what lengths investigators had to go to in order to save their positions. 1966. As a stand, the killer chose a black piano lid with a slate varnish. He placed thirteen saucers on it and there were already burning candles on them. He carefully examined the couch on which the dead man lay, and removed the empty boxes of sleeping pills from the table. The final touch remained, the cherry on the cake... The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in block letters on the singer’s chest. Half a century later, young journalist Pyotr Kravchenko became interested in this case. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those ancient events and capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past.…