Dead Chain

Police colonels Gurov and Kryachko were invited to the silver wedding of an old friend, a journalist from a small Siberian town. The celebration went cheerfully. But the next morning, an emergency occurs: the journalist's neighbor, the official Maryina, loses her ten-year-old son. The boy went to the store and disappeared without a trace. There are no threats or demands for ransom. The search of the area yielded no results. Gurov begins to watch Maryina's surroundings, and he becomes suspicious of some individuals – they behave too unnaturally in this situation… The detective's instincts do not fail him: the most terrible thing in this story happens later…