About the book: 2014 / Girls disappear in Moscow under strange circumstances. Not stars, not fashion models, not daughters of bankers - but saleswomen and cleaners, unattractive, overweight, with a failed personal life. And then they are found in their apartments, but already lifeless, with signs of strangulation with a thin cord. And on the body of each victim, experts find ancient sketches signed in French “Ingres”. Ingres is the name of the master of French neoclassicism. But how could the original sketches for the brilliant painting “Turkish Baths” end up in the wretched Khrushchev-era apartment buildings on the outskirts of Moscow? After all, all the sketches for the great painting should be in the homeland of the famous artist, in the Ingres Museum in Montauban! The Parisian prefecture checks and... discovers a substitution. The case of the murder of girls develops into a crime of international proportions. A sophisticated killer plays a deadly game with detectives, where they have to put together a puzzle step by step to understand what connects the dead girls from Russia and the idol of the French - the legendary painter Ingres…