Смерть раньше смерти

Odno za drugim sledui͡ut strashnye ubiĭstva. Prestupnik k tomu zhe sadist - on izdevaetsi͡a nad absoli͡utno nevinnymi zhertvami. Nasto­razhivaet odno: ubiĭstva imei͡ut odinakovyĭ pocherk, poėtomu nado vo chto by to ni stalo srochno ostanovitʹ manʹi͡aka i vyi͡asnitʹ, chto obshchego mezhdu li͡udʹmi, kotorykh on tak bezzhalostno unichtozhaet. Dli͡a detektiva Matta I͡Auberta iz keĭptaunskogo otdela ubiĭstv ėto edinstvennyĭ shans vernutʹsi͡a k ispolnenii͡u svoikh professionalʹnykh obi͡azannosteĭ, da i voobshche k zhizni, kotorai͡a stala dli͡a nego postyloĭ posle tragicheskoĭ gibeli zheny...

One after the other followed by a terrible murder. The offender besides a sadist, he's torturing completely innocent victims. Alarming one: the murder have the same handwriting, therefore, it is necessary in that whatever was urgent to stop the maniac and find out what is common between the people he so mercilessly destroys. Detective Matt Aubert of the Cape town homicide is the only chance to return to the performance of their professional duties, and indeed to life, which has become hateful to him after the tragic death of his wife...