The corpse of a female lawyer was found at a memorial cemetery in Copenhagen. The murder is strange, very similar to a ritual one, especially since the memorial was created on the site where, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the Germans executed Resistance heroes. The case has been taken under government control, and the Minister of Justice is putting pressure on the police leadership. Not relying on his own strength, the head of the homicide department of the capital's police department persuades former inspector Sarah Lund, who left the police two years ago, to take up the investigation of the crime... For the first time in Russian, a novel continues the detective line begun in the book "Murder" - a novel based on on the Danish television series of the same name, which gained such pan-European popularity that the American television channel AMC created its own version of the series, which was a success on the level of the cult “Twin Peaks.”