Captain of Justice Max Aleksandrov, even though he’s married to a fortune-teller, doesn’t believe in magic. His tools are observation, a sharp mind, and knowledge of human psychology. A widow of a major entrepreneur comes to his wife: she’s being troubled by the husband’s ghost. It visits at night and grows more insistent, calling her to go with it. Max understands that someone in the widow’s circle very much wants to get hold of the entrepreneur’s inheritance—but the solution will turn out to be even more stunning. Family secrets and past resentments, envy and betrayal are at the center of Eugenia Kretova’s new detective story, “The Cry of the Stoat.”