A Family Addition

Judge Irina Polyakova is assigned a simple case: to declare the missing wife of party official Ilya Chernov dead—she has been missing for five years. In all those years, no one proved that Chernov killed his wife—even though nobody has seen her alive. Probably, life with the kind of man who, taking advantage of his position, constantly cheated, became unbearable. Either the woman decided to disappear—or… the husband helped her disappear by killing her and hiding the body? The police failed to find evidence confirming that Chernov committed a crime. And if he isn’t caught, he isn’t a killer. What promised to be an easy case turns into a dead end: after all, when Irina was a student, she was in love with this strong, bright man—and she has been ashamed of that love for many years…