The Faceless One

Tsarskoye Selo is the perfect place for a Sunday excursion or a wedding photo session. And at the same time—for a cruel ritual murder… Early one June morning, the eyes of a couple of cyclists witnessed a terrible sight: the Tsar’s bathtub filled with murky rusty water, and inside it—an bloodied corpse of an elderly man with his face burned away, with a brand scorched into his chest. And nearby on the wall—an inscription containing a hint of the name of the next victim…

Investigator Valery Samsonov must crack this cipher in the shortest time possible, otherwise another innocent person will die. But Valery is only human—he makes mistakes, and the maniac kills again. Only one chance remains to understand what the monster feeding on faces wants…