A mutilated corpse at the bottom of an unfinished swimming pool. Thus begins a rainy morning for a police lieutenant recently transferred to a small town. He has yet to learn that the reasons for this murder lie in the very distant past - during the era of witch hunts. But, will he be able to accept this? And yet, inopportunely, another dead man literally rose from the grave and began to take revenge for the murdered family, which greatly complicates the investigation. Editor's comment: An impressive synthesis of the horror of a detective story and the insidiousness of mystical moods. From the first pages to the final chords, Evgeniy Tkachenko’s novel keeps you in the shackles of tension and chains of interest. What will happen next?