About the book: 2020 / The third murder of a girl occurs in a small provincial town. Local police cannot identify the culprit. At this time, an investigator from Moscow comes to the city on his next vacation. He is going to visit his mother and heal the wounds from the upcoming divorce from his wife. His friend, a local operative, invites him to join the investigation. And soon an order comes from above. To understand everything, he will have to plunge into the gray everyday life of his once native small town. Will investigator Kalinin be able to identify the maniac? And is he a maniac... Contains obscene language.