Ice Eden. Norman A.

Kales village of Kase is surrounded by impenetrable swamps, frozen lakes, blown by all winds of wasteland. The locals have long moved out of there, and there are much less chances to meet a person there than a lonely exhausted bear or wolf. And in those places there is a temple with wooden idols-a terrible place that tramps or geologists try to bypass.

somewhere in those places, the girl Varvara Karpova disappeared four years ago. Parents went to look for her - and also disappeared. The mother’s body was found with a bullet wound, and the father disappeared.

the operational-search group on the way to the temple got bogged down in snowdrifts, but fortunately, she was able to get to the only inhabited hut. There, with his wife and four children, the guardian of antiquity and the creator of the local ethnographic museum Tikhon Dikonov lived.

He agreed to help detectives in the investigation and suggested visiting his neighbor - a hermit of Kazubov, who lives in the chapel in the snow -covered hut...