Lieutenant Colonel of the capital police Anna Sterkhova arrived on a business trip to investigate archival cases that, at the time, had remained unsolved. And immediately a local resident, Elena Vasilyevna Kolodyazhnaya, approached her—she asked to pay special attention to the case of the murder of her mother. It happened more than thirty years ago right in front of Kolodyazhnaya’s eyes, when she herself was only ten. The criminal was never found, and the woman to this day cannot recover from that monstrous murder—it continued to haunt her even after years.
Anna decided to reopen the closed case and study the material evidence again, but it turned out that they had disappeared from the archive without a trace…
In Anna Knyazeyeva’s plot‑driven novels from the author’s series “The Mysterious Detective,” crimes are investigated whose traces lead into the past and allow its riddles to be illuminated. Along with the heroes, you will set out toward old secrets and exciting adventures!
In the novel “The Killer Returns Twice,” two plot lines are intertwined in an intricate way: in the past and in the present.