Darkness after dawn. Marinina A.

Even if the dawn comes, then the darkness will be replaced again...

November 1982. The anniversary of the wedding of the Smelyansky spouses is overshadowed by the death of Leonid Brezhnev. The new Secretary General is a great stress for people who have something to lose. And the Smelyansky and their guests are from these - a real nomenclature elite. But this is not the worst. In the evening, their thirteen -year -old son Seryozha and daughter Alena went to the cinema and did not return...

After the call “From the very top”, the police major Viktor Gordeev was connected to the search for missing children. The transfer to the post of deputy chief of the “slaughter” department depends on the fast and, most importantly, positive result. But what guarantees can there be? And if they are already dead? Moreover, a maniac who kills teenagers is 13-16 years old is operating in the country. And Gordeev’s friend, an employee of the criminal investigation department Leonid Cheremenin, suggests the worst.

However, his adopted daughter, a recent graduate of the legal faculty of Moscow State University Nastya Kamenskaya, has a different opinion: missing children do not fit into the handwriting of a serial killer. The opera begins to work out all possible versions. And then the KGB employees are connected to the investigation...

The first retro-detective of Alexandra Marinina. The surprisingly accurate atmosphere of the late USSR, the mood of people, their fears and hopes. Criminals, police officers and KGB, ordinary citizens and those who were admitted to the “socialist feeder” - each of them has their own history and their own motives.