Suddenly the hunter runs out. Yakovleva Yu.

The first book of the detective series of Yulia Yakovleva about the detective of Zaitsev, whose action unfolds in the thirties of the last century in Leningrad. The terror machine is already fully operating, already prisoners designed a large house, where the St. Petersburg OGPU-NKVD will soon move. Cleaning is already going on with might and main - in Smolny and in the Public, in the Putilov factory and in the Hermitage.

In the city there are murders: victims are found in strange poses and unusual clothes. Zaitsev suggests that the offender recreates plots of some picturesque canvases. But which ones and for what purpose? The investigation is interfered not only by the murderer’s cunning mind, but also by the law enforcement system itself.