Five years of retirement is a long time, especially if you are suspended from your favorite job. But not such a person Inspector John Rebus, time did not change him at all. He is still stubborn and anarchist, as independent with his superiors, and none of his colleagues know that he will throw out Rebus at the next moment. And even digging into the dust of the archives of the department for investigating unsolved crimes, where he was floated, if only from the eye, he manages in the old case of the missing girl to find traces leading to the present day, and go on a serial killer. A new novel about the famous detective, first published in Russian!