Seven Ways to Salt Souls

Vera Bogdanova is a writer, translator, and literary critic. The author of the novel "The Season of Poisoned Fruits," which became a bestseller in Russia and France and made it to the lists of the largest French awards. Laureate of... the "Moscow Art Prize," finalist of the "National Bestseller" and "Made in Russia" awards. "Seven Ways to Salt Souls" is a thriller about sects that is impossible to escape from. Nika does not like to talk about her childhood. Her father was the leader of a totalitarian sect and kept the whole city in fear. He died when Nika was twelve, but the echoes of those crimes still haunt her. Many years later, Nika returns to her native Staroaltaysk and learns that little has changed in the city. Girls from the sect are disappearing again, and they are found already dead, with claims that they have taken their own lives. Someone else is watching Nika and sending her encrypted messages. But how to prove that this is really happening when everyone around thinks Nika is crazy? Only Roma believes her, whose sister has gone missing.