Shot at a Visible Target

During the autumn drive hunt, Denis Romanovich Muratov, the owner of a hunting base, an oilman, an FSB agent, a bright and controversial person, dies. Among the suspects are numerous friends and employees of the hunting farm. Investigators send young... provincial policeman Nikita Samoylov and FSB operative Zoya Yakovleva, who is connected to the deceased not only by her place of work but also by personal ties: Muratov tried to replace her father, who tragically died in a special operation. What fateful secrets does Zoya unexpectedly uncover for herself? Who benefits from the hunter's death? Do the two investigators, a man and a woman, a country bumpkin and a city girl, become partners? All this is presented in the most captivating detective novel by Georgy Yursky.

 

1. Criminal offenses that cannot be found in any Russian detective: the author is within the law enforcement system himself.
2. Original locations of the novels: the shore of the Arctic Ocean, a monastery on Belomorye Island, the Solovetsky Islands, the Grand Canyon, etc.
3. The image of the investigator is not created according to the canons of noir detective fiction, nor according to the scheme of the fireside detective, but by the laws of Russian psychological prose. In one interview, G. Yursky admitted: “My hero is a detective from central Russia.” His character reflects both Russian national traits and the qualities of a person from the 2020s, as well as typical characteristics of an individual traumatized by a struggle with human vices. This is a happy case where the personality of the investigator is no less interesting than that of the murderer.