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A series of terrible murders - ruthless, insidious, carefully planned and requiring considerable skill - shakes the narrow little world of an elite society that has long been fenced off from life with an impregnable fence. In the life of these people there was everything that gave full grounds to compare it with paradise. This paradise was by no means granted to them by someone. They built it themselves, brick by brick, folding the fence and planting the future booths in the heavenly land with thin stems. When they decided that their own, personal paradise was finally erected on this sinful earth, it suddenly turned out: a terrible creature settled in it - cunning, dodgy, bloodthirsty. Strangers were not allowed here, and there was only one thing left - the predator was born and nurtured here, he is nothing but a fiend of a man-made paradise. Marina Yudenich is one of the most popular writers in Russia today, whose first novels were sold in unheard-of copies. And in the new novel, she remains true to herself: the feeling of the constant presence of silent witnesses and emissaries of eternity does not leave the reader until the last page, until the terrible secret of the fiend is revealed. And then the thought imperceptibly comes: heaven and hell, the fall and the feat - don't they coexist in our souls, in eternal struggle, but also in eternal unity? And if you think about it, a terrible monster that breaks free devours only the chosen ones...