The Bored Demon

The personal exhibition of Abedalonium – a world-famous artist who carefully maintains his incognito – was supposed to be the cultural event of the year for St. Petersburg and all of Russia. Instead, it became a cultural nightmare when it unexpectedly turned out that one of the master’s paintings depicted a child who disappeared eight years ago. The ensuing scandal sparked a chain of events centered around "The Bored Demon" – the artist's most famous work, a cursed painting, all of whose owners have died violent deaths. A painting that all museums on the planet fear to display. How is "The Bored Demon" connected with the series of crimes that occurred in St. Petersburg now and many years ago? This question will be answered by Major Felix Verbin, who arrived in the Northern capital on the trail of a Moscow killer…