The Talisman

Igor Ukhtomsky, an employee of a large firm, left in the morning to work in his car, but suddenly changed route and headed toward the outskirts. After that, he disappeared without a trace.

A few hours later, his body with multiple stab wounds was found in a deserted place on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. The robbery theory immediately fell away—valuable items and money were left untouched. The victim’s widow remembered that the day before Igor had mentioned an upcoming meeting with some “old acquaintance,” but there was no information about it either in his email or on Ukhtomsky’s phone. The only clue: private detectives Arseny Stroganov and Dr. Agapov noticed that a very strange and unknown man with a camera was paying attention to the victim’s relatives…