Bear Country

For easy work, a large salary will not be given! This simple truth was recalled by Antonina Bereslet too late, when she was already sent from Petrograd to the heart of distant Chukotka. Ahead of her lies a year in a village house, among strange customs and the harsh beauty of the tundra. Antonina is to investigate the mysterious deaths of people and use her gift to solve the crime. Along with her, the district police officer, the grim Sidor Berezin, whom the Chukchi do not call Umka — the white bear — is on the trail of the killer. Will the city girl endure, or will she run away as soon as the snow melts?