To investigate a new case, the entire special team of Tanya Sergeyeva—accompanied by the boss—heads to the Urals. There, in a small town called Loskutovo, the mayor is killed. Could the centuries-old—yes, centuries-old!—feud between two local clans, the Sharovs and the B razhkins, really have reached the point of murder? It’s either like 1930s Chicago or like Italy in Borgia times… Moreover, if the mayor was hit by a car, then several other people clearly died from poison. But the local witches Kudryavtsevs, who had been preparing all kinds of potions—including very dangerous ones—have been dead for a long time! Could their potion that caused something like the flu really have survived to our days? The moment Tatyana dug deeper, it turned out that…