For the first time in Russian - a novel by the Italian writer Luca Di Fulvio, a famous master of action-packed prose. “The Scarecrow” (2000), the writer’s second novel that brought him worldwide fame, became a real gift for fans of the psychological thriller genre. In 2004, based on the book, the feature film “Crystal Eyes” was shot. Early on Sunday morning, the Scarecrow goes out on his usual weekly hunt. Obsessed with the desire for death, he experiences incomparable pleasure in killing animals and birds, from which he then makes stuffed animals. But this morning people stand in his way, and he commits a triple murder, revealing a previously unknown side of his own nature... Catching a maniac who assembles a bloody puzzle from the body parts of his victims becomes a personal crusade for Chief Police Inspector Giacomo Amaldi. The search for the killer leads back to the past, to the events of 35 years ago, when a strange and terrible fire broke out in a municipal orphanage, the ominous reflections of which still haunt the consciousness of the Scarecrow...