Debut Performance. Volume 1

A stunning story of how, in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to go through to keep their positions.

1966. As a stand for the murder, the killer chose... the black, lacquered piano cover. He set out thirteen saucers on it, and on them already — burning candles. He carefully examined the couch on which the corpse lay, removing the empty boxes of sleeping pills from the table. There was one last touch, the cherry on the cake… The killer gently placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in print letters on the singer's chest.
Half a century later, this case captivated young journalist Pyotr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those long-ago events and capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past…