The Perfect Execution

The legendary detective tandem Leonov—Makeev.

The first victim of the maniac was dubbed “the bride’s corpse.” The killer dressed her in a rotting wedding dress and placed her in a doll-like pose in the yard of a wedding boutique. Colonel Gurov from the Interior Ministry understands: this theatricality means the killer craves fame and won’t stop at just one “performance”…

The next victim appeared in Saratov. The girl was tied to a monument; her wrist was pressed to her lips—as if she were biting herself in a fit of hatred. What could it mean? Gurov visits local university lecturers. With their help, he manages to decode the maniac’s messages, hidden in the poses of the victims. But it doesn’t prevent a new terrible incident…

In the past, Nikolai Leonov worked as an investigator for the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) and knew firsthand how the most tangled criminal cases are solved. That’s why every one of his books is a truthful, gripping story with an unpredictable intrigue and an unexpected ending. The main hero of these books, Colonel Lev Gurov, is a top-class detective, and on top of that, a man with many positive personal qualities. Friends respect him, enemies fear him, and women love him. He is a real homegrown superman. The novels about Lev Gurov have, for forty years now, consistently attracted fans of Russian detective fiction. The classic “Black Cat” series contains more than 200 books published in tens of millions of copies.