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…A quiet town near Moscow was shocked by the murder of Maria Shelest. Her body was found in the Rotten Pond. The local search worked quickly - in hot pursuit and testimony, Ruslan Sultanov was immediately detained, harassing her, threatening her if she did not marry him. The materials of the case were already being prepared to be submitted to the court, but then ... the priest of the local church, Father Lavrenty, confessed to the murder of the girl. Having made his delusional confession, he flatly refused further conversations and explanations. This is a scandal! Colonel Gushchin sends police captain Ekaterina Petrovskaya to negotiate with the priest. Katya could not even imagine what kind of business she would face with the light ... no, the difficult hand of Colonel Gushchin, what strange frightening events lay ahead. As soon as she arrived in the city, she learns that almost simultaneously with the discovery in the Rotten Pond, not far from that place, two badly charred, partially charred corpses were found in the Horde Forest ...