Tykulkas…
A remote town in Eastern Siberia, buried under snow, where fate has brought Special Assignment investigator Yegor Malinin. Here, his everyday life is so quiet that the loudest case is a theft of laundry taken from a yard clothesline.
But the familiar steadiness collapses when a local girl vanishes without a trace, and Yegor realizes: into his life returns again the long chain of crimes he had methodically unraveled year after year.
Now he has to sort through a series of strange incidents—so unbelievable that even the hardened skeptic Malinin begins to admit that something on the brink of mysticism is happening in Tykulkas.
And now the colonel is no longer sure whether he will have the strength and time to bring the investigation to the end.