Can a victim become a killer?! They haven’t encountered anything more mysterious in their professional practice— a series of strange murders arranged with terrifying and deliberate cruelty. Every time, the new victim is found at the intersection of three roads—a sacred and mystical place, as is known… Yet irrefutable evidence proves that the killers are different people… But serial maniacs are always loners! Colonel Gushchin, the head of the criminal police of the region, and his partners—Klavdiya Mamonova and Makar Psaltyrnikov—must solve this detective-mystical puzzle. And answer the most ambiguous and paradoxical question of all: can a victim become a killer?! Tatyana Stepanova is the author of dozens of excellent detective novels and a former employee of the press center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is extremely important, even if, at first glance, it seems to have nothing to do with literature. Tatyana works every day with information about real crimes, so her detective stories are as reliable as possible—real experience shows.