About the book: year / In a small provincial post-Soviet town, two murders and one suicide are committed. But is it suicide?.. It’s up to investigator Anna Pavlovna (Anyuta to her friends), the chief opera director Astakhov, who is in love with her, and his subordinates to reveal the circumstances of what happened, to find the criminals or the criminal. At the same time, the main characters are busy searching for a US citizen - a Soviet emigrant, a bank robber, who escaped from American justice and settled in the town of his childhood in the hope that he will not be discovered in the general post-Soviet chaos of the 90s... The heroes and their counterparts will face tests as professionals , and universal, which some of them will be able to withstand, while others will have to retreat…