The Ghost of the Nameless Alley

In Moscow's Nameless Alley, in the basement of a former soap factory, a burial site from a century ago has been discovered. The remains belong to seven people, two of whom are children, and all were shot in the back of the head with a Mauser. This ancient murder-execution led to a blood feud and a series of new crimes, no less terrifying and mysterious. The eerie family history of the Astakhov soap makers, passing their business and their secret through the female line: from Annette to Aurora, Alexandra, Alice, greatly intrigued Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Luzhkov, as well as Ekaterina Petrovskaia, a crime reporter for the Press Center of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate, and her old friend Sergey Meshchersky. Together, they embark on the investigation of a grim crime, the statute of limitations for which has long expired…

Tatyana Stepanova knows what she is writing about from experience: like the main character of her books, she works in the Press Center of the Moscow Region's Main Internal Affairs Directorate and receives information about all high-profile cases and their investigations firsthand. Her remarkably realistic novels are classic detective stories, written according to all the laws of the genre!