A brutal murder was committed in Oslo. In this case, Harry Hole plays an unusual role - he heads not the investigation, but the list of suspects. He himself cannot say anything about this, since he is going through hard times and some events of the last days have completely disappeared from his memory. True, he has an alibi for the time of the murder, but a chance discovery made in his apartment makes Harry doubt it. He is almost convinced that he is guilty, and conducts his own investigation - first of all, this is an investigation into the dark depths of his own self... The long-awaited 12th novel in the exciting Harry Hole series. For the first time in Russian!