Dead Ball

“The Dead Ball” is a new dangerous case for a Petersburg police official—the charismatic detective Rodion Vanzarov. Very young and inexperienced in everyday life, this time he must plunge into a whirlpool of deadly passions: to thoroughly learn all the secrets of the billiards gambling game, to study to the smallest detail the life and morals of the brothels of Petersburg, to walk right to the very edge of vice—like a dead ball hanging over a pocket. Only touch it—then it falls, and it’s over. And at the same time he must not lose his own dignity and not give up his honor.

Beautiful women die—seductive, crafty, and risk-taking—those who are in love with the same man. Is it a matter of circumstances, or a fine, cold calculation of a maniac?

Such passions are beyond Vanzarov’s dreams. Help comes to the young hope of Russian investigation in the person of his loyal friend and brilliant forensic expert, Apollo Lebedev.

A complex, gripping puzzle—from one of the most interesting authors of modern Russian literature, Anton Chizh!