“The Mark Ark.” In the mountains of the Northern Urals, Bur an catches a group of tourists. They have an injured person, and they can’t cross the pass. Death—terrible, senseless—spreads an icy breath over them… The freezing group is found by Mark Ledogorov, who escorts them to a remote taiga outpost, more like an ark. When a mysterious murder happens at the outpost, the case becomes thoroughly tangled. Ledogorov is sure that all the members of the tourist group are lying to him. Who among them ended up here not by accident? Mark and his friend Pavel will have to unravel a terrible secret, find love, and gain salvation—the ark was, after all, invented to save people!
“Hundred Years of Path.” When the director of a museum is killed in an old manor, and an antique cup and letters from the beginning of the twentieth century are found beside the body, the investigation is brought an expert: Professor Dmitry Shakhovsky. To understand what happened at the crime scene, Shakhovsky needs to reconstruct the events of nearly a century ago—the story of the First Duma, the dismantling of one of the terrorist cells… And also learn and understand something else—about himself. Perhaps he wouldn’t have noticed or understood it if not for Varvara Zvon kova. He will unravel the intricate twists of fates, the strange and mysterious coincidences…