Debut Performance. Volume 2

An astonishing story about how in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, a favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what investigators had to do to keep their positions. 1966. As a stand-in, the killer chose a black piano lid, shimmering with aspid lacquer. He arranged thirteen saucers on it, and on them already – burning candles. He carefully examined the couch on which the corpse lay, removed the empty boxes of sleeping pills from the table. The final touch remained, the cherry on the cake… The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in block letters on the singer's chest. Half a century later, this case fascinated a young journalist, Pyotr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenetskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those long-ago events capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past…