For the first time in Russian, the mystical thriller “The Murderous Shadow,” written by the Italian novelist Giorgio Faletti, author of the famous bestsellers “I Kill” and “Painted Death,” is published. The action of the book takes place in the small American town of Flagstaff in Arizona. Caleb Kelzo, the owner of a campsite, having difficulty making ends meet, finds an ancient golden vessel in a forest cave, and soon his old friend Jim Mackenzie, who returned to his hometown a decade later, finds the corpse of Caleb himself with a distorted face and broken bones. This death puts the beginning of a whole series of murders, in the investigation of which, along with Jim, his former girlfriend April, his former classmate detective Robert Bodisen and his old friend Indian Charlie Bigay are involved. Thanks to the latter, the mystery of what happened begins to be revealed: the vessel found by Caleb is the receptacle of Shim, the ancient spirit of the Earth, the killing shadow that brings retribution, and the crimes that shook the town are the consequences of a curse imposed by the once powerful shaman Eldero, the leader of the Navajo Indian tribe, on the killers of his family daughters of Talena and their descendants...