Long ago, a talented artist was approached by a man in black with a strange request—to paint a picture that could either kill or bring great evil… In modern times, at accountant Anna Pavlovna’s jubilee, the birthday girl received an unusual antique painting. At the sight of it, the chief accountant instantly dropped and died of a heart attack. A junior manager, Alya Nevelichkina, tries to figure out the strange death, because her brother Vityalik went mad just by looking at the same painting… An exciting detective by Natalia Aleksandrova from the “Artifact” series!