About the book: 2024 / For fans of Mike Omer. A Russian detective thriller about the unusual abilities of a profiler who uses unique methods of psychoanalysis to solve a practically hopeless case. A retired Interior Ministry major was brutally murdered in Crimea. Human bites were found on the man's body, his liver was torn out, the victim was folded in half and carefully tied up. What is this - revenge or a warning? The investigation was entrusted to Lieutenant Colonel Samburov and profiling specialist Kira Vergasova. Based on how coldly the body was mutilated, Kira concludes that this is not the killer’s first corpse. And, most likely, not the last... Another naked body - a local businessman - bent in an unnatural position, was found on Mount Ai-Petri. The ankles and wrists were tied with the same knot as the first victim, familiar bites on the body. A third similar corpse, this time female, was found by a guard in the ancient fortress of Balaklava…