The Ghost of the Nameless Alley

In the Nameless Alley of Moscow, in the basement of a former soap factory, a burial site dating back a century was discovered. The remains belong to seven people, two of whom are children, all shot in the back of the head with a Mauser. This ancient murder-execution led to a blood feud and a series of new crimes, no less terrifying and mysterious. The chilling family saga of the Astakhov soap makers, passing their business and their secret through the female line: from Annette to Aurora, Alexandra, Alice, has greatly intrigued senior police lieutenant Dmitry Luzhkov, as well as Ekaterina Petrovskaya, a crime reporter for the Press Center of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate, and her old friend Sergey Meshchersky. The three of them embark on the investigation of this dark crime, the statute of limitations for which has long since expired…