The City Falls Asleep

A classic detective story with a light touch of mysticism. Vladimir Dementyev is the kind of investigator who needs answers to every question—even if those answers lie beyond the boundaries of ordinary ways of perceiving the world. When he is invited to read the will of one of the victims of a serial killer, he doesn’t even suspect that he’ll be drawn into a deadly game in which, every night, the Mafia kills Innocent Citizens, and by day Citizens lynch the supposed Mafia. Will the players follow the will of the cursed deck, or is someone simply putting on a show? The named Commissioner has to look not only for the killers who received black cards, but also for the one who started it all—the mysterious Host. The novel “The City Sleeps” is included in the series “Normal Abnormal,” but in it it is a fully independent story, standing apart from the main cycle.