In Moscow, unprecedented events unfold: the police discover women with cut throats, one after another. All the victims show no signs of sexual violence; instead, internal organs have been removed and neatly arranged at the crime scene, forming a kind of “decoration,” as the criminal calls it himself. A bloody kiss mark is visible on the face or neck of each murdered woman—the signature of London’s Jack the Ripper.
Could it be that a serial killer has moved to Moscow? The answer to this question, of course, will be sought by a government official for special assignments, Erast Petrovich Fandorin.