Debut Performance. Volume 2

An astounding story about how, in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, a favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to do to keep their positions. The year is 1966. As a base for the... murder, the killer chose a black, glossy piano lid. He arranged thirteen saucers on it, and placed burning candles on them. He carefully examined the couch on which the corpse lay, removing the empty boxes of sleeping pills from the table. There was one final touch, the cherry on top... The killer gently placed a photograph of a woman on the singer's chest and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in printed letters. Half a century later, a young journalist, Pyotr Kravchenko, became fascinated by this case. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with those involved in those long-ago events and capable of uncovering the dark secrets of the past…