John Rebus is back! Five years of retirement is a long time, especially if you are removed from your favorite job. But Inspector John Rebus is not such a person; time has not changed him at all. He is still stubborn and an anarchist, just as independent with his superiors, and none of his colleagues know what Rebus will do next. And even rummaging through the dust of the archives of the department for the investigation of unsolved crimes, where he was sent, just out of sight, he manages to find traces in an old case about a missing girl that lead to the present day and find a serial killer. A new novel about the famous detective, published in Russian for the first time!