About the book: 2024 / The post-war “crush” is a real goldmine. You can get almost everything there - from groceries to wardrobe items. And children's clothing is in great demand. That's just where the speculators got it from... Alert teenagers report to the police that they saw a noticeable child's coat at the market. The day before there was an unknown girl in exactly the same one near the local cinema, who later disappeared. Police captain Nikolai Sorokin is perplexed: is the urban legend about a terrible child abductor really not a fiction and a real non-human really went on the hunt?.. The atmosphere of the formation of the post-war generation, close to many readers, when the spirit of youth and freedom is intoxicating. When it’s one step from “anything is possible” to “stop, I’ll shoot.” Crime novels are about a time, the memory of which is still cherished in many families. Characters similar to the iconic images of the film “Farewell, Zamoskvoretskaya punks.” “In the novels of Valery Sharapov, time is so palpable that it seems that just a little more, and you will find yourself among the heroes of these books - imperturbable investigators, insidious criminals, frightened citizens. And desperate detectives will accept you as one of their own and immediately take you on another dangerous operation...” - Sergei ZVEREV, author of combat novels