About the book: 2023 / Another book by the legendary Leonov-Makeev tandem. On the central square of the regional city, a girl’s corpse was discovered in one of the ice figures . Colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gurov and Kryachko established that the deceased, a Moscow student, disappeared just before the New Year. It also turned out that the figure in which the victim was found was not included in the previously agreed upon plan for the ice composition. What is this - a cruel joke of a maniac who took a peculiar part in the decoration of the city? Suddenly it turns out that there is another “extra” sculpture in the fairy-tale town. What was revealed inside her completely confused the seasoned detectives... Nikolai Leonov, a former MUR investigator, knew firsthand how the most complicated criminal cases are solved. Therefore, each of his books is a true, exciting story with unpredictable intrigue and an unexpected ending. The main character of these books, Colonel Lev Gurov, is a high-class detective, moreover, with a lot of positive human qualities. He is respected by his friends, feared by his enemies and loved by women. He is a real domestic superman. Novels about Lev Gurov have invariably attracted fans of Russian detective stories for forty years now. The classic “Black Cat” series includes more than 200 books, with tens of millions of copies sold..