The Root of Evil Among the Herbs

In the distant 1951, Professor of Botany Kantemirov was accused of the brutal murders of three women during an expedition in Dombay-Ulgen. With the help of his enamored graduate student Ninochka, the professor managed to escape to Moscow, where all suspicions against him were lifted…

It would seem that so many years have passed, that ancient story has already grown over with weeds… But no!

In the Moscow region, the bodies of strangled women have been discovered within a few days of each other. Colonel Gushchin and his assistants in the investigation, Klaudiya Mamontov and Makar Psaltyrnikov, have no doubt that they are dealing with the actions of a serial killer. The pattern of the murders matches, as do the unusual details that the strangler leaves on the bodies of the victims. And all signs point to that long-ago case. The heirs of Professor Kantemirov did not inherit his obsession with botany, but it seems they have a different kind of obsession in their blood…

The head of the regional criminal police, Colonel Gushchin, and his partners, Klaudiya Mamontov and Makar Psaltyrnikov, are set to unravel a new detective-mystical puzzle in the gripping novel by Tatiana Stepanova "The Root of Evil Among the Herbs"…

Tatiana Stepanova is a police lieutenant colonel, a former employee of the Press Center of the Moscow Region Interior Ministry, and an investigator, which is why her stories portray the investigations of criminal mysteries so plausibly and in such detail.