Novels about the real heroes of their era - Soviet police officers, people for whom service feats are an everyday thing. The sixties. In a village near Moscow, the dacha of the Kayashev family burned down. An investigative team led by Lieutenant Alexander Cherednikov finds the charred corpses of the dacha owner and her daughter in the ashes. Experts find out that the women were first strangled and then thrown into the basement. Who carried out such a brutal massacre? Lieutenant Cherednikov manages to find out that the fire in the village is only a disguise for the real crime. And the tragedy of the Kayashev family began in the hungry winter of besieged Leningrad... This was quite recently. When honor and selfless devotion to a dangerous profession were the main and mandatory qualities of Soviet police officers...