About the book: 2016 / In Moscow's Nameless Lane, in the basement of a former soap factory, a century-old burial was found. The remains belong to seven people, two of them children, all shot in the back of the head with a Mauser. This long-standing murder-execution entailed blood feud and a series of new crimes, no less terrible and mysterious. The creepy family history of the Astakhov soap makers, passing on their business and their secret through the female line: from Annette to Aurora, Alexandra, Alice, was extremely interesting to senior police lieutenant Dmitry Luzhkov, as well as Ekaterina Petrovskaya, a crime columnist for the press center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, and her old friend Sergei Meshchersky. The three of them take on the investigation of a dark crime, the statute of limitations for which has long passed.…