CHtoby rassledovat novoe delo, vsya spetsbrigada Tani Sergeevoy, v soprovozhdenii shefa, vyehala na Ural. Tam, v nebolshom gorodke Loskutovo, pogib mer. Neuzheli mnogovekovaya - da-da, imenno tak! - vrazhda dvuh mestnyh klanov, semeystv SHarovyh i Brazhkinyh, i v samom dele doshla do smertoubiystva? Pryamo ne to CHikago tridtsatyh godov, ne to Italiya vremen Bordzhia. . . Prichem esli gradonachalnik byl sbit mashinoy, to esche neskolko chelovek yavno umerli ot yada. No mestnyh koldunov Kudryavtseyh, gotovivshih vsyako-raznye snadobya, v tom chisle vesma opasnye, davnym-davno net v zhivyh! Razve ih zele, vyzyvavshee nechto vrode grippa, sposobno sohranitsya do nashih dney? Edva Tatyana kopnula poglubzhe, kak vyyasnilos takoe. . .
