Nothing Costs So Dearly

The best detective in Saint Petersburg, Lieutenant Colonel Goncharov, investigates the murder of the wife of the general director of a large enterprise. He manages to identify the culprit fairly quickly, but that is only the beginning of a grand case—after which the criminal news program "The City Has Accepted" might as well be renamed "The City Has Flinched." Goncharov has a strange feeling: as if Providence itself is ordering him to figure out this story and arranging accidental meetings and acquaintances, allowing him to gather fragments of important information. And although he risks his own life, the lieutenant colonel cannot back down…

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