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Chief Inspector Jakub Mortka returns to unravel a mysterious murder.
In Milanówek, near Warsaw, two women are killed – the daughter and wife of the notorious gangster known as Wilk. Wilk himself disappeared six years ago in unexplained circumstances, and after a painstaking and lengthy investigation his body, with a bullet-ridden skull, was found by Detective Sergeant Kochan. And now both women have been killed with Kochan's own weapon...
His superiors summon Mortka to the crime scene – they want him to see his colleague's guilt for himself and not begin an investigation of his own, especially as everything points against Kochan. Everything except Mortka's hunch. Kochan, now in hiding, phones the chief inspector and asks for help. Whoever is framing him must be connected with the death of Wilk and his two associates, the Neptune Three.
At the same time, Sergeant Sucha is trying to get to the bottom of a hidden-camera recording that shows several men raping a young man. She has identified some of them – high-ranking politicians. She knows that if she makes the recording public they will deny everything, so she intends to gather irrefutable evidence first. She learns that the victim – the young man worked as an assistant at a consulting firm – has taken his own life.
Mortka and Sucha join forces – she helps him with Kochan's case, he helps her with the rape case – not yet knowing that the two cases are linked…
Wojciech Chmielarz (born 1984) is a crime writer and journalist, winner of the Wielki Kaliber Award (2015), repeatedly nominated for the same award, and winner of the Grand Prix of the Warsaw Crime Fiction Festival (2019) and the Złoty Pocisk (2019). He has published in, among others, „Puls Biznesu", „Presja", „Nowa Fantastyka", „Pocisk" and „Polityka". He is a former editor-in-chief of the website niwserwis.pl, which covers organised crime, terrorism and international security. He is regarded as one of the most promising crime writers of the younger generation. He is the author of the series of novels about Chief Inspector Jakub Mortka: Podpalacz (2012), Farma lalek (2013), Przejęcie (2014), Osiedle marzeń (2016) and Cienie (2018), the Gliwice series: Wampir (2015) and Zombie (2017), the post-apocalyptic novel Królowa głodu (2014) and the bestseller Żmijowisko (2018), on which a television series is being based. He lives in Warsaw.

Read by Janusz Zadura