The Bride of Eternity

The chapel was submerged in white flowers. Funeral wreaths lined the walls. Wilting roses and lilies were scattered on the floor. And like a mirage against the backdrop of the wall, a pedestal made of black polished wood. And on it a skeleton in a white wedding dress, adorned with gold – dozens of chains, rings, bracelets, watches on bony hands… A skull with empty eye sockets… A scythe in a fleshless hand. At first glance, seeing this strange figure, police captain Ekaterina Petrovskaya thought: this is some kind of trick, a performance… But then a wild anxiety tightened her heart. Her head spun from the stuffiness, the scent of dead flowers, from the hot wax. To avoid falling, she clung to the hand of investigator Strashilin. How did they end up in such a seemingly simple case of the murder of the pensioner Ilya Ufimcev?.. What happened in the home of the elderly Ufimcev, a former party functionary who, in his twilight years, read the Bible and communicated with the nuns of the nearby monastery?..