Summer 1992, Murom, Vladimir Oblast. A young woman's mutilated body is found in the woods near the Gorky–Vyazniki highway. The killer used an axe with terrifying precision. As the investigator races to identify the victim and her murderer, more bodies surface across two regions — and a chilling pattern emerges. A shy loner with a braid, obsessed with surpassing infamous serial killers, is hunting women along the railways of provincial Russia. Based on the real case of the "Gorky Maniac" Vi...

When twenty-two-year-old Viktoria Ganeeva vanishes after leaving home in her new white Hyundai Solaris, her parents receive strange, sterile text messages from her phone — messages that don't sound like their daughter at all. Veteran detective Major Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — immediately senses foul play. Cell tower data reveals that Viktoria's phone traveled in sync with another number that night: her best friend, Maryam Sharipova. What follows is a harrowing interrogation marathon as the...

Novosibirsk, November 1998. A woman's dismembered body is found in atree line on the outskirts of the city, covered in strange carvedsymbols. The investigator suspects a cult — but no one imagines thetruth is far worse. As more victims surface over the years, all women,all brutalized, the hunt leads to a terrifying discovery: the killeris a former police officer who used occult symbols as a smokescreento throw investigators off his trail. Based on ...

December 2018. A young woman vanishes on the highway between Moscow and Tula. Irina Akhmatova — a restaurant manager, a wife, a mother — had arranged a ride through BlaBlaCar with a stranger named "Sergey." Her phone goes dead at 9:15 PM. It never comes back on. Veteran investigator Colonel Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — launches a digital manhunt through server logs, cell tower data, and fake accounts, unraveling a web of fictitious identities created from a single IP address. The trail leads...

A woman invites a man she met online into her home. Hours later, he carries her out in a construction bag. When her frozen body is discovered in a snowdrift near a Moscow apartment block, veteran homicide detective Lieutenant Colonel Volkov — known as "the Wolfhound" — picks up the trail. Through surveillance footage, digital forensics, and old-school detective work, he reconstructs the final hours of Kristina Leonova's life and hunts down her killer in the concrete maze of Moscow's bedroo...

January 2019, Berdsk, Novosibirsk Oblast. A young mother vanishes after meeting two strangers for a test drive of her black Peugeot 407. As the investigator traces cell tower pings and highway cameras across Siberia, the digital breadcrumbs reveal a chilling pattern — this isn't the first car sale that ended in blood. A race against time through frozen highways and interrogation rooms exposes the full depth of human greed.

In the harsh landscape of Russia's Ural region, convicted criminals make desperate bids for freedom — escaping fromprison colonies, fleeing through forests, and hiding in plain sight. But the investigators tasked with hunting themdown are just as relentless. This gripping true crime narrative follows the cat-and-mouse pursuits between fugitivesand the law enforcement officers who track them across the Russian heartland. Based on real cases, "Hunting theEscaped C...

On a gray November morning in 2012, a quiet corporate lawyer named Dmitry Vinogradov walks into the Moscow offices of pharmaceutical company Rigla, greets his colleagues with a polite "Good morning," and opens fire with two shotguns and 230 rounds of ammunition. Six people die. One survives with permanent injuries. The shooter is tackled by security guards while reloading. Veteran investigator Colonel Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — must piece together the mind of a meticulous killer who planne...

On a scorching July evening on the Rostov–Taganrog highway, a police major guns down his estranged wife in broad daylight while her elderly father sits behind the wheel. When veteran homicide investigator Lieutenant Colonel Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — arrives at the scene, he finds not a gangland hit but the ultimate betrayal: a uniformed officer who turned his weapon on his own family. Through a brutal overnight interrogation, hospital-bedside testimony, and a courtroom showdown, Volkov di...

On a freezing November morning in 2019, a taxi driver spots an elderly man floundering in the icy Moika River in central Saint Petersburg. When rescuers pull him out, he's clutching a waterlogged backpack — inside are a woman's severed arms and a sawed-off rifle. The man is Oleg Sokolov, a decorated historian at Saint Petersburg State University, a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, and a celebrated Napoleonic reenactor. In his elegant apartment overlooking the Moika, investigators disc...

Samara, November 2014. A twenty-two-year-old woman drives out in her white Hyundai and disappears. Her phone goes dead. Then fake messages start arriving — someone pretending to be her. The Wolfhound traces digital breadcrumbs through her social circle and uncovers a devastating betrayal: the killer wasn't a stranger. It was someone Viktoria trusted completely. A gripping first-person account of a real missing persons case that became a murder investigation — and a reminder that the most d...

July 2018. A car riddled with bullets on the Rostov-Taganrog highway. A young mother dead inside. Her wounded father in shock. Witnesses say the shooter wore a police uniform. The Wolfhound takes on a case that strikes at the heart of law enforcement — a killer who used the authority of a badge to execute his target. The trail leads through personal vendettas and systemic abuse of power.Book 3 in The Wolfhound Files series.