Olivier Norec, a writer, screenwriter, rising star of the French detective genre and, by the way, a police captain, has already gained many fans. His social thriller “Dead Water” won several prestigious literary awards: Prix Babelio, Prix Relay des voyageurs lecteurs, Prix Maisons de la presse, etc. During the arrest of a drug dealer, Parisian police captain Noémie Chastaing receives a bullet in the face. Life, love, career - everything goes to hell, and then the “unsightly” employee is sent out of sight altogether - seven hundred kilometers from Paris, to a village on the shores of Lake Avalon, in the very wilderness, where nothing ever happens. Noemi will have to study the situation and make a decision to liquidate the police department. However, the situation changes dramatically when, after a storm, a village fisherman pulls a small plastic barrel with terrible contents out of the lake. Experts conclude that the bones found in the barrel belong to a child. The trail leads back to the past, to events that took place a quarter of a century ago, when the old village was flooded during the launch of a hydroelectric power station. It was then that three children disappeared - Alex, Cyril and Elsa. Perhaps the creepy discovery is connected to one of the missing. But if so, then what happened many years ago and where are the other two missing?..For the first time in Russian!