Moscow, January. A janitor in the Altufyevo district finds a heavy bag by the dumpsters. Inside — a body preserved by the bitter frost. A corpse in a bag means premeditation. Someone killed deliberately and tried to make the evidence vanish. The Wolfhound follows the trail through Moscow's frozen streets into a web of personal connections where trust turned fatal. Forensic precision and decades of experience dismantle every lie. Entry #2 in The Wolfhound Files series.

A cab driver vanishes on a Friday night in Tver. His car drops off the grid, his phone goes dead. Investigator Yurich — a seasoned bloodhound of the criminal division — picks up the case. What starts as a routine missing persons report spirals into a dark trail of violence, deception, and buried secrets. Based on real events from the Wolfhound Archives.

Moscow, November 2012. A quiet corporate lawyer named Dmitry Vinogradov walks into the offices of the 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. Security guards tackle him while he is reloading. Veteran investigator Colonel Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — must reconstruct the mind of a meticulous killer who trained at shooting ranges for mon...

Saint Petersburg, November 2019. A respected university historian and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor is pulled from the icy Moika River clutching a backpack filled with human remains. A veteran investigator uncovers the gruesome truth behind a decorated professor's double life — years of abuse hidden behind academic prestige, a murdered graduate student, and a narcissist who believed the laws of man did not apply to him. As the case dismantles the myth of genius excusing violence, the de...

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.

December 24, 2018, Moscow. Irina Akhmatova — a twenty-nine-year-old restaurant manager, wife, and mother — vanishes after arranging a ride through BlaBlaCar. The investigator discovers that three separate accounts on the platform, each with a different name and phone number, all trace back to a single device and a single IP address. Highway cameras track the suspect's car across hundreds of kilometers, digital forensics strip away every alias, and a coordinated arrest in Vladimir brings th...

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...

Tomsk, Russia, July 2017. On a sweltering summer morning, a dog-walker by the murky Mokrushina pond finds a dark-blue sports bag propped in the dog-rose bushes — and inside it, the first fragment of a dismembered young woman. The veteran detective who tells this story assembles a victim from missing-person reports: Viktoria Povesma, twenty, a law student who never came home from a warm evening in Lagerny Garden. A single around-the-clock intersection camera holds the unbreakable truth — th...

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...

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...

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...