Best Friend. Russian True Crime Stories, #3

When twenty-two-year-old Viktoria Ganeeva vanishes after leaving home in her new white Hyundai Solaris, her parents receive strange, sterile text messages from her phone - messages that don't sound like their daughter at all. Veteran detective Major Volkov - "the Wolfhound" - immediately senses foul play. Cell tower data reveals that Viktoria's phone traveled in sync with another number that night: her best friend, Maryam Sharipova.
What follows is a harrowing interrogation marathon as the Wolfhound dismantles three suspects' lies, exposes a murder driven by envy and microloans, and leads a search team to a shallow grave in a frozen forest outside Samara. A devastating true crime account of how friendship became a weapon - and a human life was valued at two hundred thousand rubles.