50th anniversary novel by Alexandra Marinina.
For the first time, Anastasia Kamenskaya is studying an old criminal case on a real crime. The convicted person is still serving his sentence in a correctional institution.
Since childhood, we have become accustomed to believing that there is only one truth. She is like a white pebble in a heap of black rubble. It is enough to sort everything out, and you will surely find it — the only, indisputable, unconditional truth … But is it so?
Once upon a time, a brutal triple murder of parents and a child was committed in a Moscow communal apartment. The suspect himself confessed. He was detained, an investigation and trial took place.
Twenty years later, the old criminal case falls into the hands of the legendary retired operative Anastasia Kamenskaya and the young journalist Pyotr Kravchenko. The guy believes that the convict was set up, and seeks to bring the investigators to clean water. It is then that it turns out that everyone in this story is driven by his own truth, which, in turn, generates thousands of types of lies …
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