About the book: 2021 / He lived alone in a large house on the edge of the village. He taught music at school. The locals called him “the intellectual.” The musician was often seen in a wine and vodka store. He usually bought red wine, although he did not drink alcohol himself. One fine day, he suddenly left everything and left for Azerbaijan. Well, he left and left. What kind of southerner can survive for a long time in the fierce North? And no one would have remembered him if the prosecutor’s office had not received a statement about the disappearance of the mother of three children, Popova. Prosecutor's office investigator Nikolai Semin found out that the “intellectual” had a peculiar hobby: he invited single women to his home…