He was born a genius florist. His bouquets deserved prizes at international competitions. So did the riddle he, the Gardener, posed to the detectives on his trail—worthy of being written into the annals of forensic science: why do the names of the women he killed resemble the names of flowers? Lily, Margarita, Rose… A deadly bouquet—even the bare feet of the murdered girl are dipped into a puddle, as if they were cut stems from plants. And in the hands of every woman, when they were killed, there were bags with a reproduction of Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers.” So who are you, Gardener? A maniac or a victim of a fateful turn of events? In the heat of the moment, Alexey Leonidov even argued with his best friend. And he turned out to be both right and wrong. Because the murderer Alexey had searched for for so long really was special.