Alexandra Baite’s novel “The Club of the Missing” continues the intrigue of the psychological serial detective story “The Club of Anonymous Avengers.”
Marгарита receives a strange assignment: to interview a person who has been dead for thirty years. At stake is the position of chief editor. But after the death of the rival, what began as an exciting journalistic investigation suddenly turns into a life-threatening confrontation. The Podmoskovye backwater—where people search for peace and quiet—turns out to be full of terrible secrets. And even if some of them are rooted in events from thirty years ago, there is also something that makes you mentally return to the club of psychological help and its vicious Genius. There’s no escape: she’ll have to outplay the ghosts of Grafsky Forest—locals call them “the living dead”—and leave the past in the past. On the scale of things is life, in your sleeve a pair of trump cards, and in your heart—an enigmatic admirer. So what will be the winning hand?