Suddenly the hunter runs out

Julia Yakovleva does what not a single writer dare to do to her - moves the classic detective plot in the Stalin era. And he changes our ideas about the detective, and at the same time about the whole literature.
Leningrad, 1930. The terror machine has already been fully operating, already prisoners designed a large house, where the St. Petersburg OGPU-NKVD will soon move. Cleaning is already going on with might and main - in Smolny and in the Public, in the Putilov factory and in the Hermitage.
But there are still small crimes next to a large state evil: Soviet citizens do not stop stealing, jealous and killing even in the shadow of a large house under construction. To connect the rational with the irrational, to translate the sticky horror into the language of the good old police protocol - is such a task for the most ordinary investigator of the threat can be affected?