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About
Some reflections never fade. They wait.
St. Petersburg, 1998.
Eleven people stood together for a photograph at Pavlovsk Palace.
Within days, one of them was dead, another was missing, and a collection of priceless imperial works had vanished without a trace.
Twenty-eight years later, Senior Investigator Lev Voronin is called to the Hermitage after a brutal murder. The victim's face has been covered with fragments of an antique mirror. In her hand is a photograph of those eleven people.
Lev knows the photograph.
He was there.
So was his sister Tanya.
As another member of the old group is murdered, buried police records begin to surface. The official story of 1998 starts to collapse, revealing a conspiracy involving stolen imperial treasures, forged evidence and a young glassmaker named Alexei Vaneev, whose life was destroyed by the people who needed the truth buried.
But someone is killing those who survived.
And someone has been waiting twenty-eight years for Lev to remember.
The trail leads from the frozen canals of St. Petersburg to Zurich, from an exclusive private auction at the Baur au Lac to a heavily guarded estate above Lake Lucerne.
At the centre of it all is a man known only as the Glassmaker—a man who turned beauty into a weapon and history into profit.
To recover the stolen collection, Lev must confront the truth about his sister, the choices he made in 1998, and the terrible difference between justice and revenge.
Because some crimes do not disappear.
They become part of the record.