Until February

Shamil Idiatullin — a prose writer and journalist, double winner of the Big Book Award — is a master of various genres: the author of realistic novels City of Brezhnev and Formerly Lenin, the mystical thriller Ubyr, the ethno-fantasy The Last Time, the novel The Return of the "Pioneer" and the collection Everything is Like People. The last two are simply fantastic. Russia, province, autumn 2021. The local authorities urgently needed to revive the literary magazine Flame. First-year student Anya is tasked with studying the magazine's archive — and there, among the graphomaniac's deposits, the young editor finds a manuscript of a thrilling thriller written from the perspective of a serial killer. And soon it turns out that the murders described in the text are not made up: they really took place in the town fifteen years ago, and the murderer was never caught... The author of the manuscript learns about the excavations in the archive — and now the long-hidden maniac must choose what he wants more: the peace that Anya might disturb, or literary fame?