Debut Performance (Set of 2 volumes)

«Debut Performance. Volume 1»

An astonishing story about how, in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, a favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to do to keep their jobs.

1966. As a stand, the killer chose a black piano lid, coated with aspid lacquer. He placed thirteen saucers on it, and on them were already — burning candles. He carefully examined the couch on which the corpse lay, removed the emptied boxes of sleeping pills from the table. The last touch remained, the cherry on the cake… The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in capital letters on the singer's chest.

Half a century later, this case captivated young journalist Petr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those past events capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past…

«Debut Performance. Volume 2»

An astonishing story about how, in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, a favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to do to keep their jobs.

1966. As a stand, the killer chose a black piano lid, coated with aspid lacquer. He placed thirteen saucers on it, and on them were already — burning candles. He carefully examined the couch on which the corpse lay, removed the emptied boxes of sleeping pills from the table. The last touch remained, the cherry on the cake… The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in capital letters on the singer's chest.

Half a century later, this case captivated young journalist Petr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those past events capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past…