Александр Устюгов

March 1944. At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory overshadows a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scanty testimonies of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time at the crime scene they leave portraits of the dead. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Dead Head", and its leader - the Artist. The investigation is being carried out by an experienced Major Efimov and Captain Sazonov. However, the further they delve into the case, the more they become convinced that the murders and robberies are a front. And they have yet to reveal the real goals of the Artist. When the old comrade Sazonov Rudakov joins the investigation by the NKVD, each of the heroes is under suspicion...

Grandpa Slava is the oldest of the Midland vampire family. They live quietly. They live by the law. They live the unremarkable life of an ordinary Russian family and they never kill humans - ever. Although, of course, everyone knows they drink blood. And when some lifeless corpses are found in a birch grove near Smolensk... their peaceful life falls under threat.

Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.

Story about cops who work with murder cases and try to fight bribery which leads them into various situations where their lives are at risk.