About the book: 2023 / Another book by the legendary Leonov-Makeev tandem. The duty department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a statement from the All-Russian Organization of Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants. The victims asked to neutralize the maniac, who had already killed several members of this organization within a year. Detectives Gurov and Kryachko found out that all the murders followed the same classic ritual: the criminal drove an aspen stake into the victim’s heart and hung a garlic necklace around her neck. The versions taken into development by the investigation looked unconvincing. Until the unusual motive for this bloody series unexpectedly became clear...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..