He called himself Adam. He was confident that he could revive humanity. Only women were needed for the role of Eve. A lot of women…The Karelian village of Kaise is surrounded by impassable swamps, frozen lakes, and windswept wastelands. The locals moved out a long time ago, and the chances of meeting a person there are much less than a lonely exhausted bear or wolf. And in those places there is a temple with wooden idols - a creepy place that tramps or geologists try to avoid.Somewhere in those places, Varvara Karpova's girlfriend disappeared four years ago. Her parents went to look for her - and also disappeared. The mother's body was found with a bullet wound, and the father was missing.The operational search team got bogged down in snowdrifts on the way to the temple, but fortunately, they were able to reach the only inhabited hut. Tikhon Dikonov, the curator of antiquities and the creator of the local ethnographic museum, lived there with his wife and four children.He agreed to help the detectives in the investigation and offered...He called himself Adam. He was confident that he could revive humanity. Only women were needed for the role of Eve. A lot of women…The Karelian village of Kaise is surrounded by impassable swamps, frozen lakes, and windswept wastelands. The locals moved out a long time ago, and the chances of meeting a person there are much less than a lonely exhausted bear or wolf. And in those places there is a temple with wooden idols - a creepy place that tramps or geologists try to avoid.Somewhere in those places, Varvara Karpova's girlfriend disappeared four years ago. Her parents went to look for her - and also disappeared. The mother's body was found with a bullet wound, and the father was missing.The operational search team got bogged down in snowdrifts on the way to the temple, but fortunately, they were able to reach the only inhabited hut. Tikhon Dikonov, the curator of antiquities and the creator of the local ethnographic museum, lived there with his wife and four children.He agreed to help the detectives in the investigation and offered to visit his hermit neighbor Kazubov, who lives near the temple in a snow-covered hut...___________"Alex Norman's works are an incredibly accurately conveyed atmosphere of vague horror and danger. The plot develops smoothly, with a slight acceleration. The reader is always next to the characters, he hears all the sounds, he catches the smells, he shivers from the northern cold and looks longingly at the low, cold sky. And there are no murders and blood yet, but the expectation of the approaching drama is so strong that there is no will to break away from the book and distract yourself with something else. The power of Norman's thrillers over us is endless..." - Alexey Makeev, writer, co-author of detective novels about detective Gurov