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This book is based in Stalin era USSR, where there was "no" crime, at least officially. In fact, there were no police. All "crime" was investigated as disloyalty to the state, by a militia. Each militia was a separate force with little or no communication between them. As a result when a serial killer was actively mutilating children, there was no recognition of the crime as that of a serial killer. In fact, individual militias executed homosexuals and hobos indiscriminately assuming the cases were solved. One member of the KGB recognised the scale of the crimes, their connection, and despite the threat to his career, carried out a full investigation, beneath the radar. The investigation proceeds with severe hardship to the KGB officer and his family. This book, is very well written and is evocative of the lives of ordinary people in Russia at that time. One cannot help feeling a level of awe for people who can survive in this hardship, and could even give sn insight into the Russian psyche.
