"A love story from hell" - The New York Times On the streets of Moscow, a vicious serial killer stalks his female victims. Ksenia, an ambitious young editor of an online newspaper, seeks to entrap him and further her own career. But her preoccupation with the crimes reflects her unconscious fascination with the sexual savagery of the murders and her own dark desires. She becomes obsessed with the unknown and seemingly unknowable killer... and he with her. "The fainthearted had best stay away." - Publishers Weekly "This Russian cult hit, first published there in the 1990s, proves that Russian sexual obsessives and serial killers aren't much different from familiar American ones." - Kirkus Reviews