About the book: year / A small sleepy town, lost among endless forests and swamps. Nothing interesting happens here, life flows lazily and measuredly, all the residents know each other in one way or another, and the most discussed news in the last few years is a forest fire. It was here that Maxim Vasiliev, a former investigator, and now a carpenter, carpenter, cook, cleaner and single father raising a fifteen-year-old daughter, found refuge. The peace of the sleepy town will be disturbed when a mysterious maniac appears in it, killing women for the sake of mysterious rituals. Maxim will have to help the police deal with this case, find the maniac, and at the same time find out what relation Eliza, the new teacher at the local school, has to everything that is happening. Who is she - a random witness or is there something more connected with the victims? What secrets does she hide behind the locked apartment door? And all this will have to be done very quickly, because the killer is already close…