About the book: year / A man rips out a dog’s throat, a mother and father “order” a son, a cat is given gold teeth, a seven-year-old child kills his mother and wounds his grandmother... If this is life, then what is a nightmare? And all this in the quiet provincial Pridonsk - where professionals from the RUOP, the FSB and the prosecutor's office are trying to unravel a bloody tangle of crimes.