The bride of eternity. Stepanova Tatyana Yuryevna

The chapel was buried in white colors. The walls have funeral wreaths. Digging roses and lilies are scattered on the floor. And like a mirage against the background of the wall, a pedestal of black polished wood. And on it is a skeleton in a wedding white dress, decorated with gold - dozens of chains, rings, bracelets, a watch on bony hands... a skull with empty eye sockets... a braid in his hand devoid of flesh. In the first instant, seeing this strange figure, the police captain Ekaterina Petrovskaya thought: this is some kind of focus, a performance... But then a wild anxiety squeezed her heart. The head was spinning from the stuffiness, from the smell of dead flowers, from hot wax. In order not to fall, she clung to the hand of the investigator Strashilin. Where did they get this, it would seem a simple case of the murder of pensioner Ilya Ufimtsev? What happened in the house of old Ufimtsev, a former party functionary, who read the Bible in the age of years and spoke with the nuns of the nearest monastery?