Golden ash. Sharapov V.G.

The sixties. In the village near Moscow, the cottage of the Kayashev family burned out. The investigation group, led by Lieutenant Alexander Cherednikov, finds on the ashes the charred corpses of the mistress of the cottage and her daughter. Experts find out that women were first strangled, and then dropped into the basement. Who arranged such a cruel reprisal?

Lieutenant Chechetonikov manages to find out that a fire in a village is only a disguise of a real crime. And the tragedy of the Kayashev family takes its beginning in the hungry winter of the blockade Leningrad...