The Wolfhound Files

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...