Berlin, 1939. Horribly mutilated female corpses are discovered one after another in the city. The investigation is entrusted to the secret police, but they are completely at a loss. It is only known that all those killed belonged to high society; everyone attended a very sophisticated exclusive women's club; and shortly before his death, everyone dreamed of the ominous Marble Man - either a killer, or a mirage, or a ghost. Serial murders must be solved at any cost, failure is fraught with punishment up to execution, and out of hopelessness, investigator Franz Biven, who does not know how to solve real crimes, But he knows how to extract confessions from innocent people, and joins forces with two civilian psychiatrists. The search for the killer will lead these three along an extremely winding path: together with them, the reader will more than once run into dead ends and ultimately find the truth in very terrible lands. In his new novel “Promises of the Gods,” the recognized master of the European detective story, winner of numerous prestigious awards, Jean-Christophe Granger addresses to a new genre of historical thriller - and this intrepid explorer of evil could hardly have found a more suitable setting. Victims and executioners who deserve each other, pervasive paranoia and a solution that no one could have imagined even in a nightmare - Grange reveals the full horror of human nature, disfigured by unbearable circumstances. For the first time in Russian!