The Ghost of the Nameless Lane

In Moscow's Nameless Lane, in the basement of a former soap factory, a burial site over a century old has been discovered. The remains belong to seven individuals, two of whom are children, all 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 terrible and mysterious. The eerie family history of the Astakhov soap makers, passing on their business and their secret through the female line: from Annette to Aurora, Alexandra, Alice, has greatly intrigued Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Lujkov and Ekaterina Petrovskaia, a crime journalist from the press center of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate, along with her old friend Sergey Meshchersky. Together, they take on the investigation of a dark crime, the statute of limitations for which has long expired… The novels of hereditary investigator Tatiana Stepanova allow the reader to experience a literary "room of fear." Mysterious murders, an almost tangible atmosphere of crime, the agonizing and anxious anticipation of something unknown, terrifying... Tatiana Stepanova manages to reproduce all this brilliantly. Random encounters, everyday matters, and insignificant details are depicted in her detective stories in a special, dramatic light, as if an innocent spring meadow is set against an impending storm.