Revenge is a dish best served cold. And although in that garage, at the crime scene, everything breathed with rage, that rage was also cold. The killer showed neither panic nor haste—he acted. The head of the regional criminal police, Colonel Gushchin, is sure: Polina Vavilova’s death is connected with what her husband, Colonel Vavilov, did five years ago, when he served as the chief of the criminal investigation department in the Moscow region town of Rozhdestvensk. At that time, Vavilov handled three high-profile cases. But which one is making itself known now?
Katya Petrovska, a police captain and employee of the Press Service of the Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry for the Moscow Region, was bewildered: why investigate again these old, unrelated stories?… Back then, no one could have imagined what an unexpected turn the investigation of the murder of the young wife of Colonel Vavilov would take…